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Take part in Letter Carriers' food drive Saturday
8 May 2012
Remember to place a bag of non-perishable food items near your mailbox early on the morning of Saturday, May 12, and your letter carrier will pick it up. Thats the date for the 20th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive, organized nationwide by the National Association of Letter Carriers.
The food drive is the nations largest one-day food collection, helping to restock local food shelves. The metro area goal for this years food drive is to collect more than 1.2 million pounds of food, which will be distributed to local emergency foodshelves by Second Harvest Heartland.
Letter carriers will be picking up donated food along their routes and bringing the donations to local post offices and to waiting trucks at selected Cub Foods locations.
Volunteers will be needed at the Cub Foods locations to help unload letter carrier vehicles and load the larger trucks. For a list of locations, and to volunteer, visit http://www.2harvest.org/site/PageServer
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Romulox
(25,960 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Keep this kicked!!!
Better Believe It
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(18,630 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)I live in a high rise and our regular carrier retired. We have a different postal carrier each day and unlike the retired carrier, none of the new ones posted a sign about it. I will go shopping tomorrow. I was a teacher and I always think about the kids when I donate. Since summer is coming up, I look for powdered fruit drink mixes, cereals, and other "kid friendly" food. I also look at the sugar and carbohydrate percentages on the items, also.
Blaukraut
(5,695 posts)Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)Hope everyone else is getting the bag and reminder.
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)Got a post card reminder yesterday. Hope I remember to put out the bag on Saturday. Last time, they came early and I missed them.
Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)They should get it no matter how early they come on Saturday!
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)Or, maybe when I go out to get the paper. I don't want somebody swiping it overnight.
Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)flvegan
(64,423 posts)Got my bag in the mailbox today. Thanks for posting this. I was going to do so not seeing it, but a quick search later, and I'm here with a kick and a rec!
Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)Better Believe It
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(18,630 posts)myrna minx
(22,772 posts)aikoaiko
(34,186 posts)...to turn over to the letter carrier instead of presents.