Letter Carriers Join Stamp Out Hunger Drive
CLEVELAND -- The U.S. Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers will deliver for America Saturday in conducting the nation’s largest single-day food drive, Stamp Out Hunger, U.S.Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe announced Monday.
The effort provides food to food banks and pantries across the United States that rely heavily on donations.
With more than 50 million Americans living at risk of hunger, food banks across the country continue to experience record demand for emergency food assistance. To help, the nation’s 175,000 letter carriers will collect donations of food left at mailboxes in more than 10,000 communities and deliver them to food banks and other hunger relief organizations, such as pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.
Stamp Out Hunger, in its 21st year, is the nation’s largest single-day food drive. Over that score of years, letter carriers have collected more than one billion pounds of food. In 2012, Americans donated more than 70 million pounds, which marked the ninth consecutive year that at least 70 million pounds were collected.
To participate, leave a bag of nonperishable food items by your mailbox. Your letter carrier will pick up and deliver the food to a local foodbank. Examples of nonperishable items are peanut butter, canned soup, canned meats, fish, vegetables, fruits and juices, boxed goods such as cereal, pasta and rice.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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