Letter Carriers Food Drive Collects More than 70 Million Pounds

[Omaha Steve]

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Letter Carriers Food Drive Collects More than 70 Million Pounds

The results are in for the Letter Carriers (NALC) 15th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive, and they’re pretty impressive. NALC Communication Director Drew Von Bergen sends us the tally.

Letter Carriers collected more than 70.7 million pounds of food donations in the nation’s largest one-day effort to combat hunger. The food was delivered to local food banks, pantries and shelters to help needy families.

Final results showed 70,745,176 pounds of non-perishable food were collected along postal routes on May 12 in more than 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions. The amount was a slight increase over last year and the fourth consecutive year the union’s Stamp Out Hunger drive has exceeded 70 million pounds. It brought the total for the drive’s 15 years to more than 836 million pounds.

This year’s total was augmented by the donation of 1 million pounds of products by Campbell Soup Co. to food banks throughout the United States on behalf of the drive.

Buffalo/Western New York NALC Branch 3, which collected 2,094,193 pounds of donations, was the top NALC local branch in the drive for the fifth consecutive year.

FULL story at link.