Mail Privacy Statute (1971)
- protects U.S. postal mail from being opened by another without the recipient’s consent
- Domestic mail can be opened without consent only if there is a valid search warrant for that mail
- only applies to postal mail
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The mailbox restriction rule allows only the U.S. Postal Service to put postal mail in a person’s physical mailbox at his or her home.
- adopted in 1934
- is the reason why other commercial delivery services cannot deliver parcels to mailboxes