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

Letter carriers in more than 10,000 communities across America will join forces to help stamp out hunger. On Saturday, May 12, postal employees in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands will collect non-perishable food items and deliver them to local community food banks, pantries and shelters across the country. They will be participating in the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) food drive, the world’s largest annual single-day food drive.

How to Help
More than 120 million postcards were mailed to customers in towns and cities throughout America letting them know about the food drive. Customers who did not receive a postcard can contact their local post office to see if it is participating in this year’s drive.

Customers are asked to place bags of non-perishable food items such as canned soup, canned vegetables, pasta, rice or cereal next to their mailbox before their letter carrier delivers the mail on Saturday, May 12. The letter carrier will do the rest, taking the food to the post office where it is sorted and delivered to an area food bank or pantry.

Postal customers in New York City and Chicago are asked to take their food donations to their local post office starting on Monday, May 7 and continuing through Saturday, May 12.

Sign up to receive an e-mail reminding you to place non-perishable food items next to your mailbox at www.helpstampouthunger.com.

Thanks to Tanya for the tip!

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