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Generally speaking in the US, "tampering with the mail" means the opening, destruction, damaging, or interfering with mail intended for another person. This includes obscuring, modifying, or substituting a delivery address on the parcel or writing so as to redirect the mails to someone or somewhere other than the intended recipient and/or delivery address. Opening someone else's mail may be construed as mail tampering.

It may also include any means that interferes with the lawful receipt of mails at the delivery address, such as destroying a mailbox, making a mailbox unfit for the receipt of mails, or blocking, obscuring or concealing a mailbox with the intent to interfere with delivery of the mails. .

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