Postal workers to participate in ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ drive

By Denise Dick

Staff report

Cleveland

U.S. Postal Service employees will participate May 8 in the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) “Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive,” the largest one-day food drive in the nation.

The effort will help feed families in all 50 states.

Led by letter carriers represented by the National Association of Letter Carriers, with the help of rural letter carriers, other postal employees and numerous volunteers, donations from this year’s event are expected to push the overall total since the annual drive began 18 years ago to more than 1 billion pounds.

Though thousands of local post offices will be participating in the program, some are unable to. To find out whether your letter carrier is participating, contact your local post office.

The process to donate is simple: Donors place nonperishable food items in bags and leave them by their mailboxes. Carriers pick up the bags and deliver them to local food banks.

More than 125 million postcards, designed for the first time by the Postal Service and co-sponsored by the Campbell Soup Co., will be mailed to customers to remind them of the drive.