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Re:U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s M... by nonce725 on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:39AM (#18415684)
IANAL but the impression I get is that loosely defined terms like "tamper" can be interpreted in many different contexts depending on how eager the prosecutor is.

Falsifying your identity to a federal postal service to gain access to someone else's mail? That breaks a wide range of laws

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Re:U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s M... by SilasX on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:41AM (#18415703)
Right -- falsifying identity to get postal resources would be a relevant category of crime. I don't see how mere non-destructive observation of the external packaging would count as tampering though.
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