18 U.S.C. § 1709 : US Code - Section 1709: Theft of mail matter by officer or employee

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1709 : US Code - Section 1709: Theft of mail matter by officer or employee

Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, embezzles
any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or
thing contained therein entrusted to him or which comes into his
possession intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered
by any carrier, messenger, agent, or other person employed in any
department of the Postal Service, or forwarded through or delivered
from any post office or station thereof established by authority of
the Postmaster General or of the Postal Service; or steals,
abstracts, or removes from any such letter, package, bag, or mail,
any article or thing contained therein, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.