Postal Worker Throws 300 Pro-NJ Rep. Tom Kean Jr. election mailers in dumpster

A US Postal Service employee allegedly threw approximately 300 mailers in support of New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. into a dumpster outside a Pennsylvania supermarket two weeks ago – and the incident was caught on camera , may have cost her the job.

An employee of the security company watched as the unidentified woman – who was dressed in a USPS uniform – pulled her Toyota Prius next to a Shop-Rite dumpster in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, removed several bins from her trunk and threw them inside. according to the New Jersey Globe.

“We saw her dump it,” the security guard told the blog.

A surveillance camera captured the whole thing – and the recording was given to Postal Service investigators.

“We have a license plate,” a security guard said on the video. which was posted on YouTube. “She has a Pennsylvania license plate, but it looks like the mail is coming from Jersey.”

An independent committee affiliated with the national Republican Party had sent the pro-Kean mailers, which the Globe said were intended for Garden State voters in a ruby-red section 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.”

“We have referred this incident to the US Postal Inspection Service and the US Postal Service Office of Inspector General and have no further action to provide,” Hernandez said in an email.

But the agency may have already taken action — The Globe’s editor, David Wildsteinsaid in a post on X that an agency official confirmed that the woman “has been fired from her job as a mail carrier in Succasunna, NJ.”

Kean, the son of popular former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean, is locked in a fierce battle for his seat in the House of Representatives in the state’s 7th Congressional District.

A recent Monmouth University poll showed Kean ahead of Democratic opponent Sue Altman by just two percentage points — well within the 4.7% margin of error — in a swing district that could help determine control of the House of Representatives.

“I believe in the security of our elections and voting by mail, but this incident is deeply disturbing,” Kean said in a statement Monday.

“I hope the USPS acts quickly to resolve the crimes that have been committed, and I urge them to be open and transparent about the details of this incident,” he continued. “Protecting the integrity of our democracy is imperative.