Letter Carriers Team Up With Major Sponsors To Stamp Out Hunger!

16th Annual Food Drive — Local Carriers Seek to Raise 1 Million Pounds of Food to Restock Local Food Bank

What:
On Saturday, May 10, Dallas letter carriers will again help Stamp Out Hunger! across America with your help.  Now in its 16th year, the Stamp Out Hunger! effort is the nation's largest single-day food drive, with letter carriers having collected more than 836 million pounds of food from postal customers since its inception. Last year, Dallas District letter carriers collected more than 960,000 pounds with a goal this year to exceed 1 million pounds. Donations are then delivered to community food banks, pantries and shelters.

Who:
Sid Simmons, President – Local 132, National Association of Letter Carriers
Pat Williams, Postmaster – Dallas, U.S. Postal Service
Colleen Brinkmann, Chief Marketing Officer, North Texas Food Bank
Richard D. Baikie, Campbell’s Soup Company
Gary Huddleston, Director of Consumer Affairs, Kroger Foodstores
Jennifer Bartkowski, Sr. Vice-President, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas

WHEN:
Friday, May 9, 2008 @ 8:00 a.m. - Food Drive Kick-off Media Event

Where:
North Texas Food Bank
4500 S. Cockrell Hill Rd
Dallas TX  75236-2028

Background: 
According to America’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network, more than 35 million people are food insecure, hungry or at risk of hunger.  Approximately one in four people in a soup kitchen line is a child.  Letter carriers, the fiber woven throughout every community in the United States, head this community-wide event to help Stamp Out Hunger! with their 16th annual food drive. In Dallas this year, participants are asked to simply leave a sturdy bag containing non-perishable foods, such as canned soup, canned vegetables, pasta, rice or cereal next to your mailbox prior to the time of regular mail delivery on May 10.  The local letter carriers will then collect donations from homes across the city and deliver them to the North Texas Food Bank.