The U.S. Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) conducted the nation’s largest single-day food drive on Saturday, May 11.
Communities all across the North Florida District participated in this annual event which provides food to local food banks and pantries that rely heavily on donations.
With more than 50 million Americans living at risk of hunger, food banks across the country continue to experience record demand for emergency food assistance.
Local letter carriers along with nation’s 175,000 letter carriers collected food donations left at the mailboxes of generous Americans in more than 10,000 communities and delivered them to food banks and other hunger relief organizations, such as pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.
Now in its 21st year, the Stamp Out Hunger food drive is the nation’s largest single-day food drive, having collected more than one billion pounds of food since its inception in 1993. In 2012, generous Americans donated more than 70 million pounds of food, which marked the ninth consecutive year that at least 70 million pounds were collected.
Here are some of the outstanding efforts in local communities:
Louisville GA 1,135 lbs of food
Ocilla GA 1,565 lbs of food
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