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TITLE 18, U.S. Code: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee,improperly detains, delays, or destroys any newspaper, or permitsany 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; orWhoever, without authority, opens, or destroys any mail orpackage of newspapers not directed to him, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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