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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo Detain, Delay or Obstruct the Passage of U.S. Mail is a crime
18 U.S. Code § 1703.Delay or destruction of mail or newspapers
(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.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1703
18 U.S. Code § 1701.Obstruction of mails generally
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1701
We know this is being done on purpose. Why can't Congress ask the FBI intervene?
Throck
(2,520 posts)unblock
(52,164 posts)True Blue American
(17,982 posts)Send a copy of that law to the Trump flunky. Remind him Barr will not always be there!
KS Toronado
(17,180 posts)They can talk all day about the apprentice's TV ratings, you know important stuff.