The former owner

[Exterous]

That statute is about stolen mail.

That doesn't appear to be true (See link below)

This is abandoned mail, from a person who has no contact with you nor has taken responsibility to file a simple form...find me a case where someone has been taken to court over that.

Well we don't know they didn't fill out the form since its been longer than the change of address duration. Also: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_...1133715&kql=180&kqpfp=13756658536134008829#kq

Count Three of the indictment charged Coleman with possession of stolen mail in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1708. The evidence at trial showed that Coleman possessed credit card statements belonging to Teresa Bosch, a prior tenant of his apartment in Kansas City. In or about January 1995, Ms. Bosch had moved out of the apartment and Coleman later moved in. Although Ms. Bosch had directed the Post Office to forward her mail to her new address, a Bank of America Visa credit card statement, postmarked March 2, 1995, was nevertheless delivered to the apartment sometime in March 1995. Coleman kept Ms. Bosch's credit card statement, and it was found a few months later in a box of personal effects that Coleman had shipped to Manhattan.

On appeal, Coleman contends that he did not violate § 1708 because the credit card statement intended for Ms. Bosch had been sent to what was then Coleman's address and placed in his mailbox. Coleman 85*85 further argues that the district court improperly instructed the jury on this count.

Seems the circuit courts are split on interpretation of 1708 although the cases do appear to involve other crimes as well (There are links to other cases where people have been charged in violation of 1708)

Is it likely to happen? Doesn't look like it. Doesn't make it legal though

 

[pcgeek11]

It is only illegal if you get caught.

 

[Gardener]

That doesn't appear to be true (See link below)



Well we don't know they didn't fill out the form since its been longer than the change of address duration. Also: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_...1133715&kql=180&kqpfp=13756658536134008829#kq



Seems the circuit courts are split on interpretation of 1708 although the cases do appear to involve other crimes as well (There are links to other cases where people have been charged in violation of 1708)

Is it likely to happen? Doesn't look like it. Doesn't make it legal though

From your link, see their opinion in section 88

"...we reject the suggestion that an unintended recipient of misaddressed mail could be held criminally liable under any paragraph of § 1708 if the recipient acted without criminal intent sufficient to establish that he or she kept possession of the mail with a bad purpose. Criminal liability should not attach to a person merely because they know the mail was not meant for them and they kept it or disposed of it nonetheless."

Throw it away. Stop worrying about it.

 

[Ichinisan]

Thought Anand was the subject of this thread.

 

[Mixolydian]

Whenever I get mail that's not mine, I just throw it away. Not my problem.