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18 U.S.C. § 501 — Postage stamps, postage meter stamps, and postal cards
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Whoever forges or counterfeits any postage stamp, postage meter stamp, or any stamp printed upon any stamped envelope, or postal card, or any die, plate, or engraving thereof; or
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Whoever forges or counterfeits any postage stamp, postage meter stamp, or any stamp printed upon any stamped envelope, or postal card, or any die, plate, or engraving thereof; 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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**(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 sets fire to any vessel of foreign registry, or any vessel of American registry entitled to engage in commerce with foreign nations, or to any vessel of the United States, or to the cargo of the same, or tampers with the motive power of instrumentalities of navigation of such vessel, or places bombs or explosives in or upon such vessel, or does any other act to or upon such vessel while within the jurisdiction of the United States, or, if such vessel is of American registry, while she is on the high sea, with intent to injure or endanger the safety of the vessel or of her cargo, or of persons on board, whether the injury or danger is so intended to take place within the jurisdiction of the United States, or after the vessel shall have departed therefrom and whoever attempts to do so shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 504
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1970 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 91–375 effective within 1 year
after Aug. 12, 1970, on date established therefor by the
Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service
and published by it in the Federal Register, see section
15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375, set out as an Effective Date note
preceding section 101 of Title 39, Postal Service.
§ 501. Postage stamps, postage meter stamps, and
postal cards
Whoever forges or counterfeits any postage
stamp, postage meter stamp, or any stamp
printed upon any stamped envelope, or postal
card, or any die, plate, or engraving thereof; or
Whoever makes or prints, or knowingly uses
or sells, or possesses with intent to use or sell,
any such forged or counterfeited postage stamp,
postage meter stamp, stamped envelope, postal
card, die, plate, or engraving; or
Whoever makes, or knowingly uses or sells, or
possesses with intent to use or sell, any paper
bearing the watermark of any stamped envelope,
or postal card, or any fraudulent imitation
thereof; or
Whoever makes or prints, or authorizes to be
made or printed, any postage stamp, postage
meter stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card,
of the kind authorized and provided by the Post
Office Department or by the Postal Service,
without the special authority and direction of
the Department or Postal Service; or
Whoever after such postage stamp, postage
meter stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card
has been printed, with intent to defraud, deliv-
ers the same to any person not authorized by an
instrument in writing, duly executed under the
hand of the Postmaster General and the seal of
the Post Office Department or the Postal Serv-
ice, to receive it—
Shall be fined under this ti
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