A U.S. Postal Service employee is under investigation after a postal worker allegedly dumped about 300 direct mail pieces in support of Republican Rep. Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) into a dumpster at a Pennsylvania supermarket.
The New Jersey Globe has confirmed that a woman wearing a USPS uniform was observed pulling up next to a dumpster at a Shop-Rite in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, taking several postal bins out of the trunk of her car, and throwing them into a dumpster before driving off.
The incident was captured on the supermarket’s surveillance camera. The recording was turned over to USPS investigators and obtained by the New Jersey Globe.
The pro-Kean mailers, sent by an independent expenditure committee connected to the national GOP, were meant for voters in Succasunna, part of Roxbury Township in Morris County and one of the most heavily Republican municipalities in New Jersey’s 7th district.
“We saw her dump it,” a security company official working for the supermarket told the New Jersey Globe.”
A security official is heard saying on the video saying, “We have a license plate. She has a Pennsylvania plate, but it looks like the mail’s from Jersey.”
The incident occurred about two weeks ago. It’s not immediately clear if the same postal employee had dumped other trays of mail into other dumpsters along the way.
