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18 U.S.C. § 1707 — Theft of property used by Postal Service
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Whoever steals, purloins, or embezzles any property used by the Postal Service, or appropriates any such property to his own or any other than its proper use, or conveys away any such property to the hindrance or detriment of the public service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; but if the value of such property does not exceed $1,000, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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Whoever steals, purloins, or embezzles any property used by the Postal Service, or appropriates any such property to his own or any other than its proper use, or conveys away any such property to the hindrance or detriment of the public service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; but if the value of such property does not exceed $1,000, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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Whoever willfully or maliciously injures, tears down or destroys any letter box or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces or destroys any mail deposited therein, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three 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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Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract for the United States or any department or agency thereof; or
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1708
of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the
same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces
or destroys any mail deposited therein, shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than three years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 779; May 24, 1949,
ch. 139, § 38, 63 Stat. 95; Pub. L. 103–322, title
XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat.
2147; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title III, § 3002(a)(2),
Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1805.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
1948 ACT
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 321 (Mar. 4, 1909,
ch. 321, § 198, 35 Stat. 1126; May 18, 1916, ch. 126, § 10, 39
Stat. 162; July 28, 1916, ch. 261, § 1, 39 Stat. 418; May 7,
1934, ch. 220, § 1, 48 Stat. 667).
Words ‘‘or shall willfully take or steal such mail from
or out of such letter box or other receptacle’’ were
omitted as covered by section 1702 of this title. Pros-
ecutions for theft of mail matter are invariably made
under that section whereas this section is used as basis
for prosecutions for malicious mischief to mail boxes or
receptacles. By Postal Regulations (1928), section 700,
paragraph 2, an ordinary letter box is within this sec-
tion and also section 1702 of this title. Huebner v. United
States (C.C.A. 1928, 28 F. 2d 929).
Reference to persons assisting or aiding was omitted.
Such persons are principals under definitive section 2
of this title.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
1949 ACT
As amended by this section [section 38] of the bill,
section 1705 of title 18, U.S.C., is brought more closely
into conformity with the original statute from which it
was derived by eliminating an inadvertent reference to
a ‘‘conveyance’’ which was not in the original statute.
(See
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