1-in-7 Americans need food assistance including, 7 million seniors, over 1 million veterans, and 12 million children.
The National Association of Letter Carriers continue to help feed those in our local communities who need assistance holding the nations largest annual one day food drive, on May 9th.
On Saturday May 9th Letter Carriers will be conducting their annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. The drive is the largest one-day food drive in the nation. Last year, more than 70 million pounds of food were collected, making this the eleventh consecutive year that collections reached over the 70-million-pound mark. Since the drive began in 1993, nearly 1.4 billion pounds have been collected. Residents are asked to just place non perishable food by their mailbox for their letter carrier to pick up and deliver to a local food pantry.
Led by letter carriers represented by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), with help from Rural Letter Carriers (NRLCA), other postal employees and other volunteers, the drive has delivered food to local food banks at a critical time as food pantries often run low on donations in the Spring. This years drive is enthusiastically cosponsored by the AFL CIO , The National Rural Letter Carriers Association and the United Way.
Read more: Letter Carriers Continue A 23-Year Tradition Of Working To “STAMP OUT HUNGER” | NH Labor News.