18 U.S.C. § 1705
Destruction of letter boxes or mail
Whoever willfully or maliciously injures, tears down or destroys any letter box or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces or destroys any mail deposited therein, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 31
cases (5 in the last 5 years), 1957–2025 · leading case: Johnson v. Champions, 990 F. Supp. 2d 1226 (S.D. Ala. 2014).
Johnson v. Champions, 990 F. Supp. 2d 1226 (S.D. Ala. 2014). “§ 1983 , alleging that plaintiffs are a “class of one” (Count III); (iv) a § 1983 claim against all defendants for an unspecified “deprivation of rights” (Count IV); (v) a § 1983 claim against all defendants for “conspiracy against rights,” again without specifying the rights at…”
Dominique Wallace v. United States, 43 F.4th 595 (6th Cir. 2022). “Wallace did not plead guilty to committing a felony that one might confuse for a misdemeanor—say, damaging a mailbox, see 18 U.S.C. § 1705 , or selling “bootlegged” movies, see United States v.”
Durso v. Summer Brook Preserve Homeowners Ass'n, 641 F. Supp. 2d 1256 (M.D. Fla. 2008). “§ 214 (Count V); and tampering with United States mail and invasion of privacy in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1705 (Count XII). (Doc. No. 1 at 30-36, 45-48, 66-68.”
People v. Weagley, 218 Cal. App. 3d 569 (Cal. Ct. App. 1990). “I agree with the majority opinion except with respect to the concluding discussion which equates mailboxes to storage lockers or cabinets.”
United States v. Ricky Mariano, 729 F.3d 874 (8th Cir. 2013). “§ 1708 , two counts of destruction of letter boxes, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1705 , one count of bank fraud conspiracy, in violation of 18 U.”
United States v. Raymond Boyd, Jr., 620 F.2d 129 (6th Cir. 1980). “appeals from a jury conviction of breaking into a mail receptacle (Count I) and unlawfully abstracting a letter (Count II) in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1705 and 1708, respectively.”
United States v. Paul H. \Bud\" Holmes", 822 F.2d 481 (5th Cir. 1987). “See 18 U.S.C. § 1705 (destruction of letter boxes or mail: "shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years"); § 1916 (unauthorized employment or disposition of lapsed appropriations: "shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than…”
United States v. Daniel Reid & Theodore E. Thomas, Jr., 517 F.2d 953 (2d Cir. 1975). “§ 1702 , a “letter box,” “mail receptacle” or “authorized depository for mail matter,” 18 U.S.C. §§ 1705 , 1708, “mail bags,” 18 U.”
United States v. Kevin Williams, 693 F.3d 1067 (9th Cir. 2012). “The statute criminalizing malicious destruction of a letter box, 18 U.S.C. § 1705 , supports this conclusion.”
United States v. Terry W. Holloway, 991 F.2d 370 (7th Cir. 1993). “However, nowhere in the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, did Congress repeal, amend, or otherwise specifically negate the continuing vitality of disjunctive sentencing.”
United States v. Larry Dean Perry, 815 F.2d 1100 (7th Cir. 1987). “A superseding indictment was filed March 24,1986, charging Perry with the original three offenses and adding a fourth count charging defendant with breaking into a mail collection box in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1705 (1982). Perry moved to dismiss the indictments for…”
United States v. Chairez, 17 M.J. 787 (1983). “DECISION SNYDER, Judge: Contrary to his pleas, the accused was convicted by a military judge sitting as a general court-martial of wrongfully and unlawfully breaking open a United States Post Office Box, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1705 . 1 His sentence is dismissal and total…”
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