
      Whoever uses or attempts to use in payment of postage, any
    canceled postage stamp, whether the same has been used or not, or
    removes, attempts to remove, or assists in removing, the canceling
    or defacing marks from any postage stamp, or the superscription
    from any stamped envelope, or postal card, that has once been used
    in payment of postage, with the intent to use the same for a like
    purpose, or to sell or offer to sell the same, or knowingly
    possesses any such postage stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card,
    with intent to use the same or knowingly sells or offers to sell
    any such postage stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card, or uses
    or attempts to use the same in payment of postage; or
      Whoever unlawfully and willfully removes from any mail matter any
    stamp attached thereto in payment of postage; or
      Whoever knowingly uses in payment of postage, any postage stamp,
    postal card, or stamped envelope, issued in pursuance of law, which
    has already been used for a like purpose - 
      Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one
    year, or both; but if he is a person employed in the Postal
    Service, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
    than three years, or both.

                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $500" in two places in last par.

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