Quote Originally Posted by Spartan GL View Post
I had no idea this thread existed before you sent me the link. also on the pretense of mail fraud wouldn't apply in this case. You held a private transaction for a used car part and the part was damaged by the United States Postal Service. You were not deprived of anything or schemed into buying a counterfeit item. On top of everything the actual value of the item is less then $70. furthermore you are in a completely different Court District then I and if you are thinking "Oh hey federal court" they don't take cases of this level.

You got the item you paid for. USPS damaged it.
You may want to brush up on the law and definitions of fraud this is right from the US Postal Office
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18 U.S.C. ยง 1341 provides:
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation occurs in relation to, or involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, transferred, disbursed, or paid in connection with, a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)), or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.[2]