Keeping a package addressed to someone else is considered mail theft, according to the USPS, and is punishable by up to $250,000 in fines or up to five years in prison, according to legalclarity.org.

Can you keep a package you didn't order? What about wrong deliveries meant for someone else? Avoid common shipping scams.

It's the season of holiday shopping and stolen mail. Is it okay to keep a misdelivered package in Illinois, though?

When a package was addressed to someone else and delivered to you by the U.S. Postal Service, federal law applies and it ...