Help your Letter Carrier Stamp Out Hunger!
Leave bags of non-perishable food by your mailbox on Saturday, May 14.
The Annual Letter Carriers "Stamp Out Hunger"
Linn Benton Food Share Food Drive is coming up!
Mail carriers will be collecting donations of nonperishable food on Saturday, May 14, for the 24th annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive.
The annual “Stamp out Hunger” food drive asks mail customers to fill a bag with pasta, cereal, peanut butter, canned soups and stews, and other nonperishable food items and leave it by their mailboxes for carriers to pick up.
Food drive information cars and collection bags will arrive in the mailboxes of Albany residences beforehand.
Last year, Albany letter carriers collected about 28,000 pounds of food for Linn Benton Food Share, which distributed it through local food pantries. Volunteers are needed to help sort food at the Albany Post Office on Saturday May 14th. Volunteers are asked to spend an hour or two between 11:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. sorting food the mail carriers bring to the Main Post Office dock in Albany. Please e-mail Susan James at sjames@communityservices.us to sign up or for more information.
This is a fun family, individual or group volunteer project!
