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+title: Mail Statutes
+description: Applicable mail statutes regarding the letter sent to former property owner.,
+date: 2025-03-20T19:22:34.005Z
+tags:
+ - law
+ - statutes
+ - legal
+categories: Legal
+type: docs
+draft: false
+alias: []
+thumbnail: https://res.cloudinary.com/solardump/image/upload/v1742465259/legal/photo-1725975179809-396e67ee30a4.jpg
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+## 18 U.S. Code § 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.
+(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
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+## 18 U.S. Code § 1703 - Delay or destruction of mail or newspapers
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+(a) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, unlawfully secretes, destroys, detains, 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 delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General 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 destroys any newspaper, or permits any other person 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
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+Whoever, without authority, opens, or destroys 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.)
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+[^1]: https://legalclarity.org/is-it-illegal-to-open-someone-elses-mailbox/
+[^2]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1702
+[^3]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1703 \ No newline at end of file