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18 U.S.C. § 1702 — Obstruction of correspondence
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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 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 steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains, or attempts so to obtain, from or out of any mail, post office, or station thereof, letter box, mail receptacle, or any mail route or other authorized depository for mail matter, or from a letter or mail carrier, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or abstracts or removes from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, or secretes, embezzles, or destroys any such letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein; or
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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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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1703
remaining on board the said vessel for delivery
at such ports.
Whoever, being the master or other person
having charge or control of such vessel, breaks
bulk before he has arranged for such delivery or
onward carriage, shall be fined under this title.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 777; July 3, 1952,
ch. 553, 66 Stat. 325; Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(15), Aug.
12, 1970, 84 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title
XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat.
2146.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 327 (Mar. 4, 1909,
ch. 321, § 204, 35 Stat. 1127).
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted ‘‘fined under this
title’’ for ‘‘fined not more than $100’’ in last par.
1970—Pub. L. 91–375 substituted ‘‘Postal Service’’ for
‘‘Postmaster General’’ in two places.
1952—Act July 3, 1952, provided for only the unloading
of mail from a vessel as can be expedited by discharge
at such port.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1970 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 91–375 effective within 1 year
after Aug. 12, 1970, on date established therefor by
Board of Governors of United States Postal Service and
published by it in Federal Register, see section 15(a) of
Pub. L. 91–375, set out as an Effective Date note pre-
ceding section 101 of Title 39, Postal Service.
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Offices of collector of customs, comptroller of cus-
toms, surveyor of customs, and appraiser of merchan-
dise in Bureau of Customs of Department of the Treas-
ury to which appointments were required to be made by
President with advice and consent of Senate were or-
dered abolished, with such offices
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