A U.S. Postal employee “is no longer employed” and could face federal charges after absentee ballots were found in a dumpster near Jeffersontown on Thursday.
In a release, Special Agent Scott Balfour from the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General said agents identified the postal employee they believe is responsible for discarding the mail and that person is “no longer employed by USPS.” Balfour said federal privacy concerns don’t allow him to comment further about the employment status.
“I will point out that the vast majority of the Postal Service’s 630,000 employees are hard-working, trustworthy individuals who work around the clock to deliver the nation’s mail, and incidents of this nature are exceedingly rare when put into that context,” Balfour said in a statement.
He also said anyone can report crimes committed by postal employees to the hotline at 888-USPS-OIG or www.uspsoig.gov….
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