Help Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger on May 10

Nation’s Largest Food Drive Helps Millions of Americans in Need

Spotswood, NJ – Spotswood Letter carriers with help from their sisters and brothers in the other postal crafts and thousands of volunteers will join forces to help stamp out hunger by collecting non-perishable food items and delivering them to local community food banks, pantries and shelters across the country. The Spotswood Post Office along with 174 other Central New Jersey Post Offices, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), Campbell Soup Company, and Second Harvest will collect this Saturday, May 10th.

An estimated 35 million people are at risk of hunger in America, including 12 million children. Since 1993, the Postal Service, and the Stamp Out Hunger food drive has collected 836.2 million pounds of food for community food banks throughout the nation.

“The success of the food drive is its; simplicity. All Spotswood citizens need to do is place their donated non-perishable items next to their mailbox before their Letter Carrier delivers the mail Saturday, May 10. The carrier will do the rest, taking the items back to their station where they will be sorted and delivered to a local food bank." said Susan Denneler, Postmaster of Spotswood.

Accordingly, residents who wish to participate can leave non-perishable food items like canned meats and fish, canned soup, juice, pasta, vegetables, cereal, and rice at their mailboxes for the Stamp Out Hunger food drive this Saturday.