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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1708. Theft or receipt of stolen mail matter generally
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
Whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception
obtains any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any
article or thing contained therein which has been left for
collection upon or adjacent to a collection box or other authorized
depository of mail matter; or
Whoever buys, receives, or conceals, or unlawfully has in his
possession, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any
article or thing contained therein, which has been so stolen,
taken, embezzled, or abstracted, as herein described, knowing the
same to have been stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both.
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