                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MAIL THEFT; PENALTY (§ 18.2-110.1)

A. As used in this section:
			&#8220;Delivery service&#8221; means the same as that term is defined in
&#xA7; 18.2-246.6. &#8220;Delivery service&#8221; does not include the United
States Postal Service.			&#8220;Mail&#8221; means any letter, postal card,
parcel, package, bag, or other material, along with its contents, that (i) has
postage affixed by the postal customer or a postal service, (ii) has been
accepted for delivery by a postal service, (iii) the postal customer leaves for
collection by a postal service, or (iv) a postal service delivers to the postal
customer, which has not been retrieved from the mail receptacle.			&#8220;Mail
receptacle&#8221; means a mailbox, post office box, rural box, letter box, lock
drawer, or any place or area intended or used by postal customers or a postal
service for the collection, deposit, or delivery of mail.			&#8220;Postal
service&#8221; means the United States Postal Service or a delivery service.

B. Any person who (i) knowingly, willfully, and with the intent to deprive,
injure, damage, or defraud another (a) takes, destroys, hides, or embezzles mail
or (b) obtains any mail by fraud or deception; (ii) buys, receives, conceals, or
possesses (a) mail and knows or reasonably should know that the mail was
unlawfully taken or obtained; (b) any key he knows or reasonably should know is
suited to any lock adopted by the United States Postal Service that provides
access to any mail receptacle located in a cluster mailbox unit or other mailbox
panel used for the purpose of centralized mail in any neighborhood, including
any condominium or apartment complex; or (c) a counterfeit device or key
designed to provide access to any lock described in clause (b); or (iii)
knowingly, willfully, and with the intent to steal any mail inside damages,
opens, removes, injures, vandalizes, or destroys any mail receptacle is guilty
of a Class 6 felony.

HISTORY: 2025, cc. 128, 132.