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Agent: Postal worker who dumped GOP mailers not politically motivated, just lazy
Wisconsin reporter ^ | 11-3-14 | M.D. Kittle

Posted on 11/03/2014 12:34:13 PM PST by bigbob

The Neenah mail carrier who dumped hundreds of GOP political mailers in an apartment complex Dumpster wasn’t politically motivated; the postal worker just didn’t feel like delivering the stacks of campaign advertisements, according to preliminary findings from the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General.

“Based upon our investigation, this was nothing done toward a specific candidate or party. It looks like it was a decision made by the carrier, and it was not a good decision,” to not deliver the campaign advertisements, Robert Rukes, special agent with the inspector general’s office in Chicago, told Wisconsin Reporter Monday.

“A lot of times, what happened in this situation, you have a carrier who felt overwhelmed with the volume of mail so they decided to discard some of the mail without delivering,” Rukes added.

Due to the ongoing investigation, Rukes declined to identify the mail carrier, who, according to the special agent, dumped 879 pieces of political mail Thursday.

As Wisconsin Reporter first reported Sunday, the political mailings were from the campaigns of Mike Rohrkaste, Republican candidate for Wisconsin’s 55th Assembly District, and Glenn Grothman, a Republican state senator running for the open 6th Congressional District seat, as well as political messages from a special interest group in support of former state Rep. Roger Roth, a Republican who is running for Wisconsin 19th Senate District seat.

Rukes confirmed that Neenah postal officials responded to the apartment complex and verified the mailers had been unloaded in the Dumpster. A resident had witnessed the mail carrier dump the campaign literature, according to Rukes.

There were no reports that campaign mailers from Democratic Party candidates have been similarly mishandled.

(Excerpt) Read more at watchdog.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: lazy; mail; mailers; postal; unions; usps
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1 posted on 11/03/2014 12:34:13 PM PST by bigbob
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To: bigbob

We’re supposed to believe that?

Did he dump any DNC material?


2 posted on 11/03/2014 12:35:06 PM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: bigbob
To a Democrat,

If it:

Logically, it must be a porcupine.
3 posted on 11/03/2014 12:37:22 PM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: bigbob

did he dump anything else?


4 posted on 11/03/2014 12:37:40 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: bigbob; All

Just add it to the list of guberment agency’s we can no longer trust to do their job impartially: IRS, DOJ, WH, USPS...and the hits just keep on coming...


5 posted on 11/03/2014 12:38:00 PM PST by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: bigbob

Have you ever heard of a mail carrier dumping the regular junk mail we all get? I didn’t think so.


6 posted on 11/03/2014 12:38:08 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: SMARTY

he didn’t dump grocery store circulars I bet


7 posted on 11/03/2014 12:38:25 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: bigbob

Oddly .. I believe that. What a loser.


8 posted on 11/03/2014 12:38:59 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: bigbob

No because interfering with Political campaigns probably carries a stiffer fine and sentence than just scofflaw’ing it off.


9 posted on 11/03/2014 12:39:02 PM PST by Usagi_yo (Criticize, marginalize, demonize, criminalize.)
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To: bigbob

So it isn’t a Federal crime to tamper with the mail if you’re “just lazy?”


10 posted on 11/03/2014 12:39:28 PM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: bigbob

Fire Sale. Brooklyn Bridge $9.95


11 posted on 11/03/2014 12:40:34 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: bigbob

” and it was not a good decision”

Duuh ....

Two hours of advanced decision making seminar and back to work.


12 posted on 11/03/2014 12:41:54 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: bigbob

“There were no reports that campaign mailers from Democratic Party candidates have been similarly mishandled.”

Odd how laziness can hit you sporadically like that.

Well, whatever the Ministry of Truth tells us.


13 posted on 11/03/2014 12:42:20 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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“A lot of times, what happened in this situation....”

Really...a lot of times?

Just your run of the mill mail destruction. Nothing to see here...


14 posted on 11/03/2014 12:42:25 PM PST by lacrew
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To: bigbob

Calibration error.


15 posted on 11/03/2014 12:42:54 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: bigbob
There were no reports that campaign mailers from Democratic Party candidates have been similarly mishandled.

Yeah, not politically motivated... right.../s

16 posted on 11/03/2014 12:43:45 PM PST by GOPJ ( Are You More Likely to be Infected or Beheaded Today Than You Were 6 Years Ago? freeperPROCON)
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To: bigbob

Sounds like mail tampering to me. Throw the book at the bum and deny him a pension. Send a message!


17 posted on 11/03/2014 12:44:04 PM PST by Maudeen
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To: bigbob

If the carriers stopped delivering flyers where I live they wouldn’t have anything to do. I get pounds of it every day and have to short through it to make sure a real letter didn’t get hidden.


18 posted on 11/03/2014 12:44:33 PM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: RIghtwardHo

Easy to prove - were ‘rat mailers dumped too?


19 posted on 11/03/2014 12:44:42 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: bigbob

So strange that he was only dumping Republican campaign literature.


20 posted on 11/03/2014 12:45:32 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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