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18 U.S.C. § 1708 — Theft or receipt of stolen mail matter generally
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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 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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**(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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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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