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Letter Carrier Food Drive Is Today For Local Food Banks
May 11, 2013
Today, Escambia and Santa Rosa County letter carriers will again join forces to Stamp Out Hunger in our community, providing assistance to the thousands of area citizens who are struggling to put food on their tables every day.
Now in its 21st year, the Stamp Out Hunger effort is the nation’s largest single-day food drive. In 2012, drive organizers in our community collected more than 150,000 pounds of food for local pantries. This year, the food will be distributed to the following food pantries: Manna Food Pantries, Bay Area Food Bank, Warrington Emergency Aid, Acts Ministries of Gulf Breeze and We Care Ministries of Navarre United Methodist Church.
United Way of Escambia County, the U.S. Postal Service, National Association of Letter Carriers and Feeding America, Campbell’s Soup Company, Publix, AARP, Valpak, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, the AFL-CIO, GLS Companies, Source Direct Plastics, Valassis/Red Plum and Uncle Bob’s Self Storage are supporting the drive this year.
To participate in the Stamp Out Hunger drive, Escambia and Santa Rosa County residents are encouraged to leave a sturdy bag containing non-perishable foods, such as canned soup, canned vegetables, pasta, rice or cereal, next to their mailbox prior to the time of regular mail delivery on Saturday, May 11. Local letter carriers will collect these food donations as they deliver the mail and take them to postal offices for pick up by food pantries.
Pictured top: Stamp Out Hunger donations hang on mailboxes on Wiggins Lake Road in Walnut Hill. NorthEsambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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5 Responses to “Letter Carrier Food Drive Is Today For Local Food Banks”
Yes jus leave your flag up. If you get mail or not they will still pick it up
Ref: Just wondering…it you don’t have incoming mail but you have out going they will not pick your mail up….So here’s the question ,,,if you don’t have incoming mail are they going to pick up the food?
To Little Lou. Never had my mail not being pickd up If I place it in the mail box. If you don’t put up that little red flag the mail man will not stop they don’t know you have mail. If your mail is not being picked up call your local post office and talk with the supervisor.
Just wondering…it you don’t have incoming mail but you have out going they will not pick your mail up….So here’s the question ,,,if you don’t have incoming mail are they going to pick up the food?
It is a really good idea if possible to place the bag in your box or hang it from your box rather than putting it on the ground……one reason is because ants like food too and the other is because your carrier may have a hard time getting it off the ground especially if its full of cans or other heavy items.
I was surprised to learn of the number of people supported by the Cottage Hill Baptist Church Food Bank.
My Doomsday Pantry has had a big dent knocked in it, just from helping local people I know nearby. Check those expiration dates and allow nothing to go to waste.
If I don’t have enough for the end of the world then so be it. It would be better to stand before God with your ribs showing, than to deny food to hungry children and stand before him with a full belly. In the end, and come it will.