A US Postal Service worker allegedly tossed about 300 mailers in support of New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. into a dumpster outside a Pennsylvania supermarket two weeks ago — and the caught-on-camera incident may have cost her the job.
A security company worker watched as the unidentified woman — who was clad in a USPS uniform — pulled her Toyota Prius up next to a Shop-Rite dumpster in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, took several bins out of her trunk and chucked them in, according to the New Jersey Globe.
The caught-on-camera mail dump may have cost the postal worker her job.
“We saw her dump it,” the security worker told the blog.
A surveillance camera captured the whole thing — and the recording was given to Postal Service investigators.
“We have a license plate,” one security worker said on the video, which was posted to YouTube. “She has a Pennsylvania plate, but it looks like the mail’s from Jersey.”
An independent committee connected to the national Republican Party had sent out the pro-Kean mailers, which the Globe said were intended for Garden State voters in a ruby red portion of western Morris County in North Jersey.
On Monday, USPS spokesman Xavier Hernandez told The Post that the agency is “aware of the allegation of mishandled political mail.”
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. is facing Democrat Sue Altman. Julian Leshay Guadalupe/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images“We have referred this incident to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General and have nothing further to offer,” Hernandez said in an email.
But the service may have already taken action: The Globe’s editor, David Wildstein, said in a post on X that an agency official confirmed the woman “has been removed from her job as a postal worker in Succasunna, NJ.”
Kean, the son of popular former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, is locked in a ferocious battle for his House of Representatives seat in the state’s 7th Congressional District.
The mailers were meant for New Jersey voters who live in western Morris County.
A recent poll from Monmouth University showed Kean leading Democratic opponent Sue Altman by just two percentage points — well within the poll’s 4.7% margin of error — in a swing district that could help determine control of the House.
“I believe in the security of our elections and voting by mail, but this incident is deeply troubling,” Kean said in a Monday statement.
“I hope the USPS acts swiftly to resolve whatever crimes have been committed, and I urge them to be open and transparent about the specifics of this incident,” he continued. “Protecting the integrity of our democracy is imperative.”
