18 U.S.C. § 1692
Section 1692 · Foreign mail as United States mail
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Andreo v. Friedlander, Gaines, Cohen, Rosenthal & Rosenberg (1987)
Most recently applied in 317 F. Supp. 3d 1018 - Prendergast v. First Choice Assets, LLC (May 2018)
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Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.
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Historical and Revision Notes
Based 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.