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18 U.S.C. § 1705 — Destruction of letter boxes or mail
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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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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)** Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.
**(b)** Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.
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Whoever takes any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or any authorized depository for mail matter, or from any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or authorized depository, or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes, embezzles, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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Whoever tears, cuts, or otherwise injures any mail bag, pouch, or other thing used or designed for use in the conveyance of the mail, or draws or breaks any staple or loosens any part of any lock, chain, or strap attached thereto, with intent to rob or steal any such mail, or to render the same insecure, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, 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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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1704
tains, delays, or opens any letter, postal card,
package, bag, or mail entrusted to him or which
shall come into his possession, and which was
intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or
delivered by any carrier or other employee of
the Postal Service, or forwarded through or de-
livered from any post office or station thereof
established by authority of the Postmaster Gen-
eral or the Postal Service, shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both.
(b) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or
employee, improperly detains, delays, or de-
stroys any newspaper, or permits any other per-
son to detain, delay, or destroy the same, or
opens, or permits any other person to open, any
mail or package of newspapers not directed to
the office where he is employed; or
Whoever, without authority, opens, or de-
stroys any mail or package of newspapers not
directed to him, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 778; May 24, 1949,
ch. 139, § 37, 63 Stat. 95; Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(16),
Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title
XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), (G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat.
2146, 2147.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
1948 ACT
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 318, 319 (Mar. 4,
1909, ch. 321, §§ 195, 196, 35 Stat. 1125, 1126).
Section consolidated sections 318 and 319 of said title
18, U.S.C., 1940 ed. The embezzlement and theft provi-
sions of each were incorporated in sections 1709 and 1710
of this title.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
1949 ACT
This section [section 37] corrects typographical errors
in section 1703 of title 18, U.S.C.
Editorial Notes
AMENDME
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