Leave Donations For Wilmington Food Pantry By Your Mailbox On May 14

WILMINGTON, MA — Wilmington residents are reminder to leave donations to the Wilmington Food Pantry by their mailboxes this Saturday, May 14 as part of the 24th annual Letters Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

The food drive, sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), is the world’s largest one-day food drive, taking place in more than 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.

Participating in the food drive couldn’t be easier. Before their regular mail pick-up on Saturday, May 14, postal customers are asked to leave bags of non-perishable food items by their mailboxes. Letter carriers will pick up the bags and—with help from retired letter carriers, other postal employees and countless volunteers—deliver the bags to local food agencies.

Hunger affects about 50 million people around the country, including millions of children, senior citizens and veterans. Pantry shelves filled up through winter-holiday generosity often are bare by late spring. And, with most school meal programs suspended during summer months, millions of children must find alternate sources of nutrition.

Because the nation’s 175,000 letter carriers visit every address in the country at least six days a week, we see the struggles in the communities we serve, and we believe it’s important to do what we can to help.

The food drive’s national partners are the U.S. Postal Service, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, United Way Worldwide, the AFL-CIO and Valassis.

In its 23 years, the Stamp Out Hunger food drive has collected more than 1.4 billion pounds of food; last year’s drive collected approximately 71 million pounds.

To learn more about the Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, visit http://www.nalc.org/food. And be sure to use the hashtag #StampOutHunger when talking about the food drive on social media.

(NOTE: The above press release is modified and from National Association of Letters Carriers.)

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