The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its 25th annual national food drive on Saturday. The Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive, the countrys largest single-day food drive, provides residents with an easy way to donate food to those in need in the community.
According to a news release, customers simply leave their donation of non-perishable goods next to their mailbox before the delivery of the mail on Saturday. Letter carriers will collect these food donations on that day as they deliver mail along their postal routes and distribute them to local food agencies. Visit www.nalc.org/food <http://www.nalc.org/food> to learn more.
The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is the nations largest single-day food drive and is held annually on the second Saturday in May in 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam.
The release notes with the economic struggles many Americans face, the Letter Carriers Food Drive is as critical as ever. Not only do millions of Americans go hungry, organizations that help them are in need of replenishments.
Hunger affects about 50 million people around the country, including millions of children, senior citizens and veterans. Pantry shelves filled up through winter-holiday generosity often are bare by late spring. And, with most school meal programs suspended during summer months, millions of children must find alternate sources of nutrition. Letter carriers see these struggles in the communities they serve, and they believe its important to do what they can to help.
On Saturday, as they deliver mail, the nations 175,000 letter carriers will collect donations left by residents near their mailboxes. People are encouraged to leave a sturdy bag-paper or plastic-containing non-perishable foods, such as canned soup, canned vegetables, canned meats and fish, pasta, peanut butter, rice or cereal, next to their mailbox before the regular mail delivery on that Saturday.
Since the first national Food Drive in 1993, the Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive has collected more than 1.5 billion pounds of food; last years drive brought in a record 80 million pounds of food.
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