The National Association of Letter Carriers will conduct its annual national food drive on Saturday, May 10th. The Stamp Out Hunger food drive, which was first held in 1983, is the country’s largest one-day food drive, providing residents with an easy way to donate food to those millions of Americans in need.
Customers simply leave their donation of non-perishable food items 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 banks, pantries, shelters and churches.
All donations made locally to the food drive stay right here in our community.
The drive 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. Hunger affects 1 in 8 Americans, including millions of children, senior citizens and veterans.
In the thirty-two years since it began, the food drive has collected about 1.82 billion pounds of food for struggling residents.
The timing is important, with food banks, pantries and shelters running low on donations from the winter holidays and with summer approaching, when most school meal programs are suspended.
