Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73
§1691 Laws governing postal savings
Title 18 › Part PART I— - CRIMES › Chapter CHAPTER 83— - POSTAL SERVICE › § 1691
Summary
Put the same protections and punishments that cover public money and postal or money-order funds onto postal savings accounts, their money, and related operations. That means crimes like stealing or wrongfully using money, making false reports, forging or counterfeiting documents, altering or misusing forms, records, plates, or engravings are treated the same, and the same penalties apply.
Full Legal Text
Title 18, §1691
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All the safeguards provided by law for the protection of public moneys, and all statutes relating to the embezzlement, conversion, improper handling, retention, use, or disposal of postal and money-order funds, false returns of postal and money-order business, forgery, counterfeiting, alteration, improper use or handling of postal and money-order blanks, forms, vouchers, accounts, and records, and the dies, plates, and engravings therefor, with the punishments provided for such offenses are extended and made applicable to postal savings depository business and funds and related matters.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on section 765 of title 39, U.S.C., 1940 ed., The Postal Service (June 25, 1910, ch. 386, § 15, 36 Stat. 818). Changes of phraseology were made without change of substance.
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Citation
18 U.S.C. § 1691
Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
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