SAN FRANCISCO — On Saturday, May 11, letter carriers nationwide will join forces to help stamp out hunger by collecting non-perishable food items and delivering them to local community food banks, pantries and shelters across the country. To kick off this year’s National Association of Letter Carriers’ food drive, the San Francisco Postal District is hosting an event on Friday, May 10, at the Daly City Post Office, 1100 Sullivan Ave., Daly City, CA 94015 beginning at 9 a.m. The media and public are invited and encouraged to attend this free community event.
Speaking at the kick of celebration will be: John Beaumont, president, California State Association of Letter Carriers, Joelle Zamora, manager, Post Office Operations, Raymond A. Buenaventura, mayor, Daly City, Tami Cardenas, director of development and marketing, Second Harvest Food Bank San Mateo/Santa Clara Counties and Rayna Lehman, director, AFL-CIO Community Services/San Mateo County Central Labor Council - Labor Liaison to United Way of the Bay Area.
This year will be the 21st Annual National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Food Drive — the largest one-day food drive in the USA. The U.S. Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers Association join NALC as official sponsors in this effort to ‘Stamp Out Hunger.’ Other sponsors include Campbell Soup Company, Feeding America, Valpak, AFL-CIO and United Way of America.
It is a very simple and easy concept: the public is asked to leave non-perishable food in a sturdy bag by their mailbox on Saturday, May 11, 2013. That food will be collected by letter carriers and distributed to local charities that provide it to people who need it — right in the same community.
Through a lot of hard work, dedication and compassion, and the support of customers in the communities they serve, letter carriers collected over 70 million pounds of food last year -- the ninth consecutive drive surpassing 70 million pounds collected. The total donations received since the drive began in 1993 now stand at nearly 1.2 billion pounds of food. They are counting on the public’s generosity once again to help feed the hungry this year.
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