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18 U.S.C. § 1342 — Fictitious name or address
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Whoever, for the purpose of conducting, promoting, or carrying on by means of the Postal Service, any scheme or device mentioned in [section 1341 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1341&num=0&edition=prelim) or any other unlawful business, uses or assumes, or requests to be addressed by, any fictitious, false, or assumed title, name, or address or name other than his own proper name, or takes or receives from any post office or authorized depository of mail matter, any letter, postal card, package, or other mail matter addressed to any such fictitious, false, or assumed title, name, or address, or name other than his own proper name, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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Whoever, for the purpose of conducting, promoting, or carrying on by means of the Postal Service, any scheme or device mentioned in [section 1341 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1341&num=0&edition=prelim) or any other unlawful business, uses or assumes, or requests to be addressed by, any fictitious, false, or assumed title, name, or address or name other than his own proper name, or takes or receives from any post office or authorized depository of mail matter, any letter, postal card, package, or other mail matter addressed to any such fictitious, false, or assumed title, name, or address, or name other than his own proper name, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation occurs in relation to, or involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, transferred, disbursed, or paid in connection with, a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ([42 U.S.C. 5122](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5122&num=0&edition=prelim))), or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
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**(a)** The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people. The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities. The costs of establishing and maintaining the Postal Service shall not be apportioned to impair the overall value of such service to the people.
**(b)** The Postal Service shall maintain an integrated network for the delivery of market-dominant and competitive products (as defined in chapter 36 of this title). Delivery shall occur at least six days a week, except during weeks that include a Federal holiday, in emergency situations, such as natural disasters, or in geographic areas where the Postal Service has established a policy of delivering mail fewer than six days a week as of the date of enactment of the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022. The Postal Service shall provide a maximum degree of effective and regular postal services to rural areas, communities, and small towns where post offices are not self-sustaining. No small post office shall be closed solely for operating at a deficit, it being the specific intent of the Congress that effective postal services be insured to residents of both urban and rural communities.
**(c)** As an employer, the Postal Service shall achieve and maintain compensation for its officers and employees comparable to the rates and types of compensation pa
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1342
articles, green coin, green goods and green cigars.’’
This section could be greatly simplified, and now-
meaningless language eliminated.
The other surplusage was likewise eliminated and the
section simplified without change of meaning.
A reference to causing to be placed any letter, etc. in
any post office, or station thereof, etc. was omitted as
unnecessary because of definition of ‘‘principal’’ in sec-
tion 2 of this title.
1949 ACT
This section [section 34] corrects a typographical
error in section 1341 of title 18, U.S.C.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2008—Pub. L. 110–179 inserted ‘‘occurs in relation to,
or involving any benefit authorized, transported, trans-
mitted, transferred, disbursed, or paid in connection
with, a presidentially declared major disaster or emer-
gency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)), or’’ after ‘‘If the viola-
tion’’.
2002—Pub. L. 107–204 substituted ‘‘20 years’’ for ‘‘five
years’’.
1994—Pub. L. 103–322, § 330016(1)(H), substituted ‘‘fined
under this title’’ for ‘‘fined not more than $1,000’’ after
‘‘thing, shall be’’.
Pub. L. 103–322, § 250006, inserted ‘‘or deposits or
causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to
be sent or delivered by any private or commercial
interstate carrier,’’ after ‘‘Postal Service,’’ and ‘‘or
such carrier’’ after ‘‘causes to be delivered by mail’’.
1990—Pub. L. 101–647 substituted ‘‘30’’ for ‘‘20’’ before
‘‘years’’.
1989—Pub. L. 101–73 inserted at end ‘‘If the violation
affects a financial institution, such person shall be
fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more
than 20 years, or both.’’
1970—Pub. L. 91–375 su
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