31st Annual Postal Service Food Drive This Weekend

The National Association of Letter Carriers will be conduct its 31st annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive this Saturday, May 13.

Stamp Out Hunger has become the nation’s largest one-day campaign to collect food for distribution to needy families. After a disruption due to the pandemic in 2021,
the program resumed last year, and more than 41 million pounds of food was collected.

Since its inception the program has collected nearly 2 billion pounds of non-perishable food for communities throughout the country and in Puerto Rico, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands.

In a statement put out by the organization, they say food insecurity affects 100 percent of all counties in the United States. More than 34 million people are affected,
including 9 million children and 5.2 million seniors.

For those wanting to donate, customers are instructed to leave non-perishable food donations in a bag near their mailbox on Saturday, May 13, before their letter carrier arrives.

In years past, mail carriers delivered a bag in the days before the food drive, though it was not stated if this would be the case this year.

Food collected during Saturday’s drive will be delivered to local Wisconsin community churches, food banks and food pantries for distribution.

The food collected this weekend will help these organizations through the summer months, which can be especially hard for kids when school meals are not available.