USPS investigators found hundreds of Republican political mailers in Kansas postal worker’s garage
Anna Kaminski | Kansas Reflector
This story was originally published by Kansas Reflector.
TOPEKA — A Kansas postal worker was indicted on Election Day for stealing thousands of pieces of mail, including hundreds of Republican political mailers.
Investigators for the U.S. Postal Service found more than 4,400 pieces of mail in Kelly Cram’s Baxter Springs garage. Nearly 400 of them were political mailers from Republican candidates or Republican-affiliated groups, according to a federal indictment filed Tuesday.
“The agents found no political mail related to candidates of any other political party or any political action committees affiliated with another political party at Cram’s residence,” the indictment said.
Cram, 59, had a rural mail delivery route out of Pittsburg. She had worked for the postal service since 2009 until she was put on administrative leave in early October, when investigators searched her garage, according to the indictment by a federal grand jury in Wichita.
The grand jury indicted Cram of one count of unlawful secretion, destruction and delay of mail. The USPS’s Office of Inspector General is investigating the case, according to court documents.
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