What specific law is being broken when somebody opens someone else’s mail?
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According to: KSC, TITLE 13. OFFENSES & PENALTIES:
http://www.fsmlaw.org/kosrae/code/title1…
Section 13.411. Tampering with mail.
Tampering with mail is wilfully opening, destroying, damaging, or
taking into possession without the express or implied consent of the
sender or addressee a postcard, letter, package, envelope or parcel
entrusted by the sender to another for delivery to a third person. This
section does not apply to a person employed by a postal, government, or
private courier service who acts in good faith in performance of his official duties. Tampering with mail is a category three misdemeanor.
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The American Bar Association has some more information on the issue, but you have to join the website to get the data: http://search.abanet.org/search?q=em