18 USC § 2115 - Post office

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s2115"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "18 USC § 2115 - Post office"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "2115"
section_name: "Post office"
chapter_number: 103
chapter_name: "ROBBERY AND BURGLARY"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "CRIMES"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 797; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)"
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# § 2115. Post office

Whoever forcibly breaks into or attempts to break into any post office, or any building used in whole or in part as a post office, with intent to commit in such post office, or building or part thereof, so used, any larceny or other depredation, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 797; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 315 (, ).

Mandatory punishment provisions were rephrased in the alternative.

Minor change in phraseology was made.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996— substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $1,000”.