Searches authorized

§ 903. Searches authorized The Postmaster General, by letter of authority filed in the Department, may authorize any postal inspector or other officer of the Department to make searches for mailable matter transported in violation of law. When the authorized officer has reason to believe that mailable 74 Stat. 587matter transported contrary to law may be found therein, he may open and search any— (1) vehicle passing, or having lately passed, from a place at which there is a post office of the United States; (2) article being, or having lately been, in the vehicle; (3) store or office, other than a dwelling house, used or occupied by a common carrier or transportation company, in which an article may be contained.