|
 Help
Stamp Out hunger in
Greene County by
Supporting the
National Association of
Letter Carriers
in their effort to
Stamp Out Hunger
by leaving non-perishable
food items in your
mailbox for pick up on
Saturday morning, May
10th
All Food
Collected in Greene
County will go to the
Greene County Food Bank
and help Greene County
neighbors in need.
Click
here to
watch the Food Drive
public service
announcement, featuring
the Harlem Globetrotters
Nation’s Letter
Carriers Prepare For
50-State Food Drive
Saturday
WASHINGTON – Letter
carriers across the
country will collect
non-perishable food
donations Saturday (May
10) as they deliver mail
along their postal routes
in the nation’s largest
one-day effort to combat
hunger.
The 16 th annual drive
is being conducted by the
National Association of
Letter Carriers (NALC)
with the assistance of
rural letter carriers and
other postal employees
and volunteers. The
postal union hopes to
exceed last year’s 70.7
million pounds of food
delivered to community
food banks and pantries.
NALC President William
H. Young said
non-perishable food
donations from postal
customers will help
millions of American
families withstand the
economic downturn during
the summer months, a
critical period when most
school lunch programs are
suspended.
“With rising prices
for gasoline and food, an
unbearable squeeze has
been placed on family
budgets, forcing many
Americans to seek help
for the first time from
community food banks and
pantries to get adequate
nutrition,” Young said.
Donations will be
collected along postal
routes in over 10,000
cities and towns in all
50 states, Puerto Rico,
the Virgin Islands, Guam,
and the District of
Columbia. Residents are
being asked to leave
non-perishable food
donations – such as
canned meat and fish,
soup, cereals, pasta and
rice – in a bag near
their mailbox on Saturday
before their letter
carrier arrives. Glass
containers and expired
items should be avoided.
(In Chicago and New York
City, residents should
take their donation to
their local post office
or make an online
donation.)
Over 120 million
postcards, sponsored by
the Campbell Soup Company
and the U.S. Postal
Service, have been mailed
to postal customers to
remind them of the drive.
If a resident does not
receive a postcard, they
should check with their
local post office about
the drive.
Co-sponsors with the
NALC are the Postal
Service, Campbell Soup,
Cox Target Media, United
Way of America, the
AFL-CIO and America’s
Second Harvest. |
