[Boatanchors] Fraud Question

[peter markavage]

I guess I don't understand how it constitutes mail fraud if the only
interaction of the USPS is that you're sending a payment and/or the
payment is a money order. As an example, you bought the item off a
For-Swap listing on the web; seller says they will ship either UPS, USPS,
or best way. The seller didn't solicit the buyer through the mail, i.e.
through false advertising or bogus claims sent through the mail. So
where's the Postal fraud? Postal people tell me money orders are like
cash and have as much security. Some sellers like them because they feel
the tax people can't get a bite of the sale.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:58:51 -0400 "Richard A. (Tony) Stalls"
<bc342n at earthlink.net> writes:
...Based on my experience, in general terms, if any part of the
transaction 
takes place via the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), then it falls under Title

18 of the U.S. Code (federal criminal statutes) and USPS regulations, 
particularly with regard to fraudulent activity.  To cite one example as
I 
recall it, if you buy something through the mail, the seller is obligated

to send the item within a certain period (as I recall, 30 days), or
inform ....