The National Association of Letter Carriers wants the public’s help this weekend to help fill food pantry shelves.
The group will conduct its 24th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive on Saturday, May 14.
To participate, area postal patrons may leave donations of nonperishable food items in a bag near their mailboxes, and carriers will collect the donations at the time of mail delivery that day.
Food collected will benefit local food pantries.
According to the NALC, Stamp Out Hunger is the largest one-day food drive in the United States. In 2015, active and retired letter carriers, along with their family members, friends and countless volunteers, collected almost 71 million pounds of non-perishable food, which brought the grand total to more than 1.4 billion pounds since the drive began in 1992.
The NALC recently announced that the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has signed on as a national partner for the drive, which traditionally takes place the second Saturday in May.
Other national partners, along with the U.S. Postal Service, are the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, United Way Worldwide, the AFL-CIO and Valassis.
