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title: "18 U.S.C. § 1692"
description: "Foreign mail as United States mail"
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title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
chapter_number: "83"
chapter_name: "POSTAL SERVICE"
section: "1692"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1692"
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# 18 U.S.C. § 1692 - Foreign mail as United States mail
## Text
Every foreign mail, while being transported across the territory of the United States under authority of law, is mail of the United States, and any depredation thereon, or offense in respect thereto, shall be punishable as though it were United States mail.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 776.)
## Notes
Historical and Revision NotesBased on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 359 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 229, 35 Stat. 1134). Minor changes were made in phraseology and obvious surplusage omitted.