Stamp Out Hunger ‘Kickoff’ in Los Angeles, May 7

What:

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), the Postal Service, and Labor Community Services would like to invite media to highlight the 34th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, on May 7, at the NALC's Branch 24 local office.

Stamp Out Hunger is the nation’s largest single-day food drive.

Who:

Lawrence D. Brown Jr., President, NALC, Branch 24
Marci Luna, District Manager, U.S. Postal Service
Raymond Lemos, Postmaster, U.S. Postal Service
Rita White, MCSO, U.S. Postal Service Food Drive Coordinator
Norma Lopez, Executive Director, Labor Community Services

When:

Thursday, May 7, 2026, 11 a.m.

Where:

National Association of Letter Carriers
Branch 24, AFL-CIO
774 Valencia Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017

The NALC Los Angeles, CA Branch 24 collected 1,079,300 lbs. of food in 2025.

RSVP:

Media only: Send all media rsvp’s for the event to natashi.l.garvins@usps.gov to coordinate interviews with speakers.

Background:

The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, the nation’s largest single-day food drive, provides residents with an effortless way to donate food to those in need in the community.

In the days leading to the food drive, letter carriers will be delivering special bags along with mail that may be used to make donations. Residents are encouraged to use the special bags, or something similar, containing non-perishable foods and leave the bags next to their mailbox prior to the time of regular mail delivery on Saturday, May 9th.

The letter carrier will collect the donated food and drop it off at their respective postal office where volunteers will collect the food and load it onto trucks which will deliver the food to Labor Community Services’ warehouse.  Over the following weeks, the food will be sorted by volunteers and then delivered to local food banks and pantries to help families facing food insecurity.

Food Drive TIPS

WHAT TO GIVE:Most-wanted foods include:

• Canned meats (tuna, chicken,salmon).
• Canned and boxed meals (soup,chili, stew, macaroni and cheese).
• Canned or dried beans and peas(black, pinto, lentils).
• Pasta, rice cereal.
• Canned fruits.
• 100 percent fruit juice (canned,plastic or boxed).
• Canned vegetables.
• Cooking oil.
• Boxed cooking mixes (pancake,breads).

WHAT NOT TO GIVE:

• Rusty or unlabeled cans.
• Glass containers.
• Perishable items.
• Homemade items.
• No expired items
• Noncommercial canned or packageditems.
• Alcoholic beverages or mixes orsoda.
• Open or used items.

Are food drive donations tax-deductible?

All donations to the Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive are tax-deductible because all the food collected on Food Drive Day is given directly to non-profit charity food agencies in the community where the food was collected. Though the National Association of Letter Carriers plans the Food Drive’s logistics and letter carriers provide the transportation for each donor’s generous donation, the National Association of Letter carriers is not the agency that gets listed on tax forms for claiming deductions.

There are more than 10,000 food agencies throughout the country that receive these donations, so if you itemize your taxes and want to provide proper credit for your Food Drive donations, you will need to determine the name of the agency (food pantry or other charity) that received your food, as well as the agency’s address and tax identification number for proper reporting on your tax-filing forms. The Food Drive Coordinator at your local post office (click here for a post office locator) should be able to give you the name of the receiving agency, and that agency will likely have tax information handy.

For additional news and information regarding the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, please go to www.nalc.org/community-service/food-drive.

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