Postal Service Letter Carriers To Collect Food Across the Country on May 9

Local Letter Carriers Join in Effort to ‘Stamp Out Hunger’

DULUTH, GA— The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its 17th annual nationwide Stamp Out Hunger! Food Drive on Saturday, May 9th. Stamp Out Hunger! Is the nation’s largest single-day food drive and has netted more than 900 million pounds of food since 1992. Last year, more than 73.7 million pounds of food were collected nationally, with nearly 200,000 pounds collected in metro Atlanta.

Making a donation is easy. Customers should leave their non-perishable food donation in a bag near their mailbox on Saturday, May 9th, before their letter carrier arrives. Food collected during Saturday’s drive will be delivered to local community food banks and food pantries for distribution. For participation in your area, check with your local Post Office.

Campbell Soup Company is once again lending its support by providing over 125 million postcards to postal customers announcing the Food Drive. Other co-sponsors of the drive with the letter carriers’ union are Feeding America, formerly known as America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s food bank network; the United Way of America and its local United Ways; and the AFL-CIO.

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