Falsification of postal returns to increase compensation
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, makes a false return, statement, or account to any officer of the United States, or makes a false entry in any record, book, or account, required by law or the rules or regulations of the Postal Service to be kept in respect of the business or operations of any post office or other branch of the Postal Service, for the purpose of fraudulently increasing his compensation or the compensation of the postmaster or any employee in a post office; or
Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee in any post office or station thereof, for the purpose of increasing the emoluments or compensation of his office, induces, or to induce, any person to deposit mail matter in, or forward in any manner for mailing at, the office where such officer or employee is employed, knowing such matter to be properly mailable at another post office—
Shall be or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
History: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 780 (PDF, 39 MB); Pub. L. 91–375, §6(j)(22), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 779 (PDF, 12 MB); Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147 (PDF, 52 MB).)
Simplified explanation
It is a federal crime for a Postal Service worker to make false postal records or reports to fraudulently increase anyone's pay, or to get people to mail items at their office instead of the proper one to raise their own pay.