A U.S. Postal Service employee is under investigation after a postal worker allegedly threw about 300 items of direct mail in support of Republican Rep. Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) into a dumpster at a Pennsylvania supermarket.

The New Jersey Globe confirmed that a woman wearing a USPS uniform was spotted pulling up to a dumpster at a Shop-Rite in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, removing several mailboxes from the trunk of her car and throwing them into a dumpster ahead. displacement.

The incident was captured by 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 spending committee connected to the national GOP, were aimed at voters in Succasunna, part of Roxbury Township in Morris County and one of the most heavily Republican municipalities in New Jersey’s 7th District.

“I saw her throw it,” a security company official who works for the supermarket told the New Jersey Globe.

A security official is heard saying in the video: “We have the number plate. It has a Pennsylvania plate, but it looks like the mail is from Jersey.

The incident happened about two weeks ago. It was not immediately clear if the same postal worker dumped other trays of mail into other dumpsters along the way.

Kean, locked in a tight race with Democrat Sue Altman that could determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives, said he was troubled by the allegations.

“I believe in the security of our elections and voting by mail, but this incident is deeply troubling. I hope the USPS acts quickly to address whatever crimes have been committed and I urge them to be open and transparent about the specifics of this incident,” Kean said. “Protecting the integrity of our democracy is imperative.

In 2020, Nicholas Beuchene, a 26-year-old letter carrier from Kearny, pleaded guilty to the charges that he threw a large amount of mail, including about 200 mail-in ballots sent to West Orange, into a dumpster in North Arlington.