WASHINGTON, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The National
Association of Letter Carriers' annual Stamp Out
Hunger® Food Drive will be held on Saturday, May 11. The letter carrier food drive,
which began in 1993, is the country's largest single-day food
drive.
With the drive less than a week away, NALC and its national food
drive partners will hold a kickoff event on Wednesday, May 8, at 11
a.m. at NALC Headquarters, 100 Indiana Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001. Journalists are
welcome to attend, and it will be live streamed
at nalc.org/live.
Each year, the Stamp Out Hunger drive is held on the second
Saturday in May. Letter carriers in cities and towns across
the United States collect
donations of non-perishable food items left by residents near their
mailboxes before that day's mail delivery.
Thousands of volunteers nationwide then help distribute the food
items to local food pantries, with all food collected staying in
the community.
"Letter carriers know the struggles that people in their
communities face—we see it every day," NALC President Brian L. Renfroe said. "For more than three
decades, we've helped to meet their needs, and it's time to do so
again."
One in 8 Americans, including millions of children, elderly and
veterans, are unsure where their next meal will come from. The
timing of the letter carrier food drive is significant—by spring,
food pantries are largely depleted of winter holiday food
donations, and school lunch programs are about to close for the
summer.
NALC leaders and several national food drive partners will
discuss the drive's importance as well as the logistics involved at
Wednesday's event.
The annual food drive wouldn't be possible without the support
of NALC's national partners: the U.S. Postal Service, the United
Food and Commercial Workers International Union, the National Rural
Letter Carriers' Association, Vericast, United Way Worldwide, the
AFL-CIO, Valpak, Kellanova, and CVS Health. These partners help by
paying for the specially marked postcards, donating thousands of
pounds of food and thousands of dollars to food pantries, donating
paper bags that letter carriers distribute to customers, gathering
volunteers, or getting out the message about the food drive.
More information about the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive can be
found online at nalc.org/food.
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NALC represents letter carriers across the country. Its 293,000
members make it the largest of the four unions representing
employees of the United States Postal Service. Founded by Civil War
veterans in 1889, NALC is among the country's oldest labor
unions.
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