[pct-l] Mail

[Benjamin Grunbaum]

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 § 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.


§ 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
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.