He’s gone postal before.
The mailman accused of violently shoving a 4-year-old Jewish boy to the ground is an “animal” known for flipping out on residents in the community, locals told The Post.
“He was not nice, I had an encounter with him and he got very angry,” said Yoseph, a 21-year-old father of two, who declined to give his last name.
He and his wife described the mailman, Gabriel Stan, as a nasty man with a short fuse, and were appalled by the March 19 shoving incident.
“He wasn’t the nicest guy. I went to thank him for delivering my mail, he delivers the mail every day, I wanted to thank him, and he screamed at me that I was disturbing him,” Yoseph said. “We are not happy with him.
“Once, while he was delivering packages, I asked him something and he started screaming at me,” Yoseph’s wife, who did not wish to be named, told The Post.
The alleged assault occurred in a predominantly Jewish cul-de-sac in Ramapo, NJ, bustling with children playing in the street and families preparing their homes for Passover.
“What he did was inhuman; he was like an animal, there is no excuse to attack a child, ever,” said grandmother Miriam Kingoff.
Horrifying security footage showed Stan allegedly pushing the small boy to the ground after he approached a mail box next to where Stan had parked his mail truck.
The shove sent the boy’s yarmulke flying off his head, and video showed the child quickly getting up, grabbing it and walking back to a group of other children who all fled from the postal worker.
Stan, 39, then angrily gestured toward the retreating children.
“The boy is okay, thank God. He’s a very innocent kid, I don’t think he said anything to trigger him. Whenever there’s mail or construction, the kids all rush over to see what’s happening; it’s their entertainment,” Kingoff, 71, said.
Stan was charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Police sources told The Post the incident is not being treated as a hate crime.
The United States Postal Service confirmed to The Post that Stan is still employed with the agency, but declined to provide any information about his current status.
“Pursuant to Postal policy, we do not discuss internal personnel matters, and we cannot comment on the status of current employees,” a USPS representative said in a statement.
The boy’s mother declined to speak with The Post.
On Thursday, Stan was nowhere to be seen on the mail route or at the local post office. The mailman who replaced him on the route declined to comment.
Stan could not be reached for comment.
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