Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 1692: Foreign mail as United States mail

Felony

What this law says, in plain English

Foreign mail transported across U.S. territory under legal authority is treated as U.S. mail. Crimes against it are punished the same as crimes against U.S. mail.

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Every foreign mail, while being transported across the territory of the United States under authority of law, is mail of the United States, and any depredation thereon, or offense in respect thereto, shall be punishable as though it were United States mail.

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