This Saturday, May 14, 2016, is Stamp Out Hunger, the nation’s largest single-day food drive. And to make it easier for Long Islanders to participate, the United States Postal Service has delivered more than 100,000 brown paper bags across Long Island to accommodate donations to this important event. The bags were made possible through the generous support of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 342.
Even if residents didn’t receive a bag in the mail, they are still encouraged to help Stamp Out Hunger by leaving donations of nonperishable food by their mailbox before their regularly scheduled mail delivery on Saturday, May 14.
For the past 24 years, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and the United States Postal Service (USPS) have teamed up with food banks across the country on the second Saturday in May to help Stamp Out Hunger. Participation in the Stamp Out Hunger food drive is simple.
Residents are asked to leave nonperishable food items such as canned goods, pasta, rice, boxed juices and shelf-stable milk (please, no glass items) next to their mailboxes before regularly scheduled mail delivery on Saturday, May 14, 2016. The postal carriers will do the rest. Locally, all food donated will help replenish food supplies at Long Island’s food pantries, soup kitchens and other feeding programs served by Island Harvest Food Bank, a leading hunger-relief organization.
