On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 23:11:35 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> 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 typographical error) or the address is out of date because the addressee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.

The original situation was about some lazy lowlife putting their
outgoing mail into someone else's mailbox *without their permission*,
so it does happen.

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sf