Food Drive This Saturday

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Metro-area letter carriers will join the nations largest food drive to “stamp out hunger” this Saturday, May 8. Non-perishable donations will be collected from homes by letter carriers as they deliver mail along their postal routes on Saturday. “Food banks, pantries and shelters need our help more than ever this year,” says National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando. “As families count on them for support, they’re counting on us and we will not back off on our commitment.” Other co-sponsors of the drive with the letter carriers’ union are the US Postal Service’s Priority Mail; Campbell Soup Company; Valpak; National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association; Feeding America, the nation’s food bank network; United Way Worldwide and its local United Ways; and the AFL-CIO. Persons who have questions about the drive at their location should ask their letter carrier or contact their local post office.