Fox Point, Bayside Mail Carriers Delivering For the Hungry
Stamp Out Hunger Day is Saturday, May 12 - local post offices will pick up your nonperishable items right from your mailbox, you just have to fill the bag.
The facts are a bit sobering: (Sources: USDA Food Security Report 2010, Feeding America Annual Report 2011) However, the need doesn't go unheard, and the National Letter Carriers Association is again presenting "Stamp Out Hunger Day," on Saturday. Locally, Fox Point and Bayside postal carriers have provided donation bags earlier this week in your mailboxes, but really any small donation in a bag will do. They are joining with the nation’s 210,000 letter carriers to collect food donations left at the mailbox in more than 10,000 communities and deliver them to food banks and other hunger relief organizations. The Stamp Out Hunger food drive is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and is the nation’s largest single-day food drive, …
