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On July 17, 1917, just a month after the Espionage Act passed, the Post Office notified the magazine's editor by letter that "the August issue of the Masses is unmailable."

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020

Less than a year later, more than 400 different issues of American periodicals had been deemed "unmailable."

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020

Republican Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown pointed a monitory finger at a Federal statute which makes lottery information unmailable, under penalty of $1,000 fine and two years imprisonment.

From Time Magazine Archive

She can still make something unmailable out of the twitch of a feather or a polysyllable.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the winter of 1902, Representative Jenkins introduced in the National House of Representatives a bill making periodicals containing details of suicides unmailable; but I think it was never reported from committee.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various