Letter Carriers' food drive is Saturday, May 9

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/articles/letter-carriers-food-drive-saturday-may-9

By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review
May 5, 2015

MINNEAPOLIS
The nation’s largest one-day food drive is coming Saturday, May 9, organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers.

Your participation is simple. Place a few cans of non-perishable food items near your mailbox the morning of May 9 and your letter carrier will pick up your donation later in the day.

A few days before, your letter carrier even will drop off a blue plastic bag that you can use for donated food items.

“Fill a bag, feed a family,” urged Samantha Hartwig, Coon Rapids, food drive coordinator for NALC Branch 9 in Minneapolis and a letter carrier for 11 years. “Even though the economy as a whole has gotten better, it hasn’t trickled down to everybody. The need is still out there.”

FULL story at link.

[The Blue Flower]

1. Holiday donations at food banks are nearly gone by summer

We get wonderful community support around the winter holidays at our neighborhood food bank, but by early summer we're biting our fingernails, hoping we can feed everyone with what's left. The letter carrier's drive comes at exactly the right time to keep things going until fall and winter. So please be generous on May 9.

[Skittles]

10. I just mailed a check to the local food bank

I donate a few times a year - I like reading the news updates they send me, with testimonials from real people in the community who have been helped by the food bank

[underpants]

2. Great idea

[frylock]

3. knr

[fadedrose]

4. Thank you for telling us

We didn't get a bag yet, and we always give. I was expecting them at Christmas for some reason....

Knowing a couple of days in advance give me a chance to pick up some fresh stuff on sale . . .

Thank you Dear Steve....

[FSogol]

5. K & R. n/t

[jwirr]

6. Will look at what we have. One of the members of our household is forever buying things she does

not use. I need to check them out to make sure they are not outdated.

[NCTraveler]

7. Was talking to my partner about this last night. Ready. nt.

[kentauros]

8. The NALC site has even more info,

including that they'll be picking up missed donations on the following Monday

Letter Carriers’ ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ Food Drive

[Omaha Steve]

9. Today's mail contained a brown paper sack to put the goods in

Paid for the the Letter Carriers and IBEW!