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by ssl-3 38 days ago
When I take your things, I have quite clearly stolen from you. That's theft.

When I take your things and then mail them back to you, I have still stolen from you. That's still theft.

It's the taking part that constitutes theft.

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If I instead just smash your things in-situ, then that can be a different crime like vandalism.