USPS Worker in NJ Arrested for Allegedly Dumping Mail, Including Election Ballots

[superpatriotman]

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/usps-worker-in-nj-arrested-for-allegedly-dumping-mail-including-election-ballots/2656666/

According to court documents, roughly 1,875 pieces of mail – including 627 pieces of first class, 873 pieces of standard class, two pieces of certified mail, 99 general election ballots destined for residents in West Orange, and 276 campaign flyers from local candidates for West Orange Town Council and Board of Education – were recovered from dumpsters in North Arlington and West Orange on Oct. 2 and Oct. 5.

The intended destination for the ballots and campaign flyers are heavily Democratic areas.

[Thekaspervote]

1. Happy to hear he was caught!

[hlthe2b]

2. Gee, I can't imagine where he got the idea from...

So did Henrico County, (Richmond, VA) find the mail stolen from the three boxes last weekend? Anyone know

[Bengus81]

3. Trump will be dead before this clown gets out of a Federal lockup

Have fun...........

"The intended destination for the ballots and campaign flyers are heavily Democratic areas."

[Rebl2]

19. Must of been

a republican. My husband worked at the post office processing center in a large city for over thirty years and many of the people he worked with were republicans. He finally retired and is so happy to not have to listen to their idiocy and lunatic conspiracy theories five days a week!!!

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. SMFH

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Thank goodness he was caught! I hope he was the only one doing this.

[Tanuki]

6. Good. But this reminds me...about a month ago there was a mail dumping

incident in Glendale, Ca. I never saw any follow-up or reports of arrest. Does anyone know what happened?

[TheBlackAdder]

7. USPS Informed Delivery -- You get to see images of every piece of mail you should be receiving.

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This way you know something's missing.

That's probably how this guy was caught. Someone called the postmaster asking for their lost ballot.

It could have also been the certified letter recipients.

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[Bengus81]

9. There's also a box to mark stating you never received that mail piece

[TheBlackAdder]

12. I clicked on that and the next day my mailman apologized. The postmaster came down on him hard.

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If you have a good rapport with your postal worker, talk to them first. I felt bad afterwards.

My mailman says they really look at those numbers, and want to see it zero.

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[Bengus81]

21. I've only used it once to get mail re-started

Even though we had a mail hold with a clear date to resume they never did. So a day or so later I just clicked on stuff I'd never received and it showed up the next day.

[Chakaconcarne]

17. A feature that is thwarted without automated sorting machines......

Informed Delivery® by USPS®
Digitally preview your mail and manage your packages scheduled to arrive soon! Informed Delivery allows you to view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of letter-sized mailpieces and track packages in one convenient location.*

* Images are only provided for letter-sized mailpieces that are processed through USPS' automated equipment

[marybourg]

24. Mine has been showing only about

20% of my mail lately.

[central scrutinizer]

8. Is it a federal crime?

If so, pardoned soon

[rustysgurl]

10. USPS Informed Delivery is Great!

It's free, and we see every day what to expect in our mailbox. There have been a few instances where something didn't arrive, and a quick call solved the issue (for items much less important than ballots, certified mail, etc.).

[SCantiGOP]

11. Doesn't really sound like a politically-motivated crime

Sounds more like a criminally lazy PO worker who wanted to lighten his load.

[stopdiggin]

13. have to agree. probably not "political" at all.

And -- there have been (fortunately pretty infrequent) incidents similar to this down through the years. Upside -- with mail tracking (and other system checks) it's getting harder and harder to get away with.

[SCantiGOP]

15. They usually just throw away the junk mail

But this person dumped certified letters. Since those are closely tracked, that probably means a good chance of getting caught.

[stopdiggin]

27. post I responded to mentioned "criminally lazy"

and you and I would tack on "relatively stupid" -- and not terribly concerned with keeping the job.

[calimary]

25. I HOPE it wasn't a partisan postal worker.

[stopdiggin]

28. you'll note that a very small percentage

of the dumped mail was politically oriented. And an even small fraction actual ballots.

[calimary]

30. 'Fraid I'm a little emotionally jumpy these days.

There's a lot, every week, that raises the hair on the back of my neck. Every doggone week!

[stopdiggin]

32. I think we can all empathize

these are surely "jumpy" times.
The whole USPS/voting thing bothers me a little bit -- specifically because I would expect any machinations and skullduggery against the election (if indeed it is happening) to be the work of management and executive level actions. Why on earth would we be imagining a bunch of union shop guys running around trying to sabotage the vote -- and elect Donald Trump? And, by so doing, further empower a party that has been attempting to GUT the Post Office for the last 30 years? Just doesn't seem very likely on the face of it. In fact, it defies credibility! Hammer DeJoy and his political lackeys all you want, but -- the guy/gal that delivers your mail every day is NOT trying to steal your ballot!

[OriginalGeek]

14. this is what scared me about mail-in voting

and why we will do early voting in person instead.

[Bengus81]

22. Check with your local election office. We have basically a "delivery confirmation" on our ballots

where I live done by the County. So I put it in the box at the airport in the afternoon and it should show as received the next day.

[thesquanderer]

16. "The recovered mail was placed back into the mail stream for delivery to its intended recipients"

Yes, especially in these days of covid, I'd be just thrilled to receive my mail from out of a dumpster. I hope they at least put those recovered pieces inside additional envelopes before integrating them into the rest of the "mail stream."

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

18. Sounds like a rogue worker cutting corners

Mail dumping occasionally occurs election or no election. You don’t dump almost 2000 pieces of mail to get rid of 99 ballots.

[yardwork]

23. OMG.

[yellowcanine]

26. Trump will pardon him.

[spanone]

29. Medal of Freedumb

[C Moon]

31. Doh! That guy's in it knee deep. I wonder if thought Trump would pardon him.