---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1692"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "1692"
heading: "Foreign mail as United States mail"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/1692"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 83 — Postal Service"
---

# §1692. Foreign mail as United States mail


Every foreign mail, while being transported across the territory of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9) under authority of law, is mail of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9), and any depredation thereon, or offense in respect thereto, shall be punishable as though it were [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9) mail.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 776.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 359 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 229, 35 Stat. 1134).

Minor changes were made in phraseology and obvious surplusage omitted.