What:
B-roll will be available of letter carriers bringing in food collected during Saturday’s National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Food Drive.

When:
Saturday, May 8

Where:
Evanston Post Office – 1101 Davis Street, Evanston IL
3 - 5 p.m.

Southwest Carrier Annex, 4301 W. 69th Street, Chicago
2 - 4 p.m.

Who:
Evanston – Larry Jones, (847) 328-6266
SW Carrier Annex – Derek Sykes, (312) 339-8265

Background:
The annual NALC Food Drive — held in conjunction with the Postal Service — is the largest one-day food drive in the nation. The effort will help feed families in all 50 states. Donations from this year’s event are expected to push the overall total since the annual drive began 18 years ago to more than 1 billion pounds. Chicagoans donated more than 60,000 pounds of food last year.

Media coverage of carriers returning to their Post Offices with food collected on their routes will be available Saturday afternoon as indicated above. At the Post Offices, the food will be consolidated into vehicles for delivery to local pantries in the communities where the carriers work and serve.

More information on the Food Drive, including the list of participating local pantries, is available at NALC Branch 11’s website, www.nalcbr11.org.

For coverage opportunities at other Post Office locations, contact Mark Reynolds at (312) 351-5868.

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