Trust us with your mail-in ballots, the postal workers union told us.
A mailman in New Jersey has been arrested for dumping nearly 2,00 pieces of mail in dumpsters.
The dumped mail included some 99 mail-in ballots for the general election.
“Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny, was charged with one count of delay, secretion, or detention of mail and one count of obstruction of mail...
Authorities alleged that Beauchene, who started working for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in July, was the only mail carrier assigned to deliver mail to the addresses on the recovered mail, according to the complaint...
The criminal complaint does not detail why Beauchene allegedly discarded the mail.
Beauchene resigned from the USPS Wednesday morning, Merin said, a position he started in July. U.S. District Judge Cathy L. Waldon set Beauchene’s bail at a $25,000 unsecured bond.
Authorities said once the mail was recovered, it was put back into the “mail stream for delivery to its intended recipients.””
Back on Friday, Howard Dinger came across the piles of mail.
He tells the Associated Press:
"At first it looked like junk mail circulars and things like that, and then I flipped over a piece and I saw something that said address correction and all that kind of thing.It's important mail, but thing, flip through a few more pages I saw the ballots on it, and at that point I knew it was serious...
Unbelievable amount of mail.And there's all bundled like for each block. I guess that's about two to 300 pounds of mail."