---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1726"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "1726"
heading: "Postage collected unlawfully"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/1726"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 83 — Postal Service"
---

# §1726. Postage collected unlawfully


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1), being a postmaster or other [person](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) authorized to receive the postage of mail matter, fraudulently demands or receives any rate of postage or gratuity or reward other than is provided by law for the postage of such mail matter, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 784; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 330 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 207, 35 Stat. 1128).

Minor verbal changes were made.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $100”.