On 7/26/2015 2:08 PM, sf wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:56:40 -0400, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
>
>> On 7/26/2015 1:17 PM, sf wrote:
>>> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 11:11:11 -0400, Nancy Young
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> But I don't know what's up with the original scenario, lots
>>>> of people don't have mailboxes but just PO boxes.
>>>
>>> There's a huge difference between "sneaking" mail into someone else's
>>> mailbox without permission by someone too cheap to put up their own
>>> and doing it with the expressed permission of the owner. I suppose
>>> the people who don't find it objectionable don't mind strangers
>>> entering their homes and helping themselves to the contents either.
>>
>> Putting a letter in my mailbox is nothing like stealing my stuff.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure you're never going to run into anyone putting
>> mail into your box, so no worries anyone's going to get one over
>> on you like that. Doesn't change the fact that tossing out mail
>> you find in there that isn't addressed to you is against the law.
>>
> That remains to be seen.
>

[1] Misaddressed mail generally takes one of two forms: either the
sender has made a mistake in addressing the envelope (usually due to a
typographical error) or the address is out of date because the addressee
has moved. See United States v. Palmer, 864 F.2d 524, 527 (7th Cir. 1988).

[2] Section 1702 provides in full:

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.

18 U.S.C. § 1702.