Letter Carrier Food Drive Delivers, Again
Monday, June 30, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
For the 11th consecutive year, the Letter Carriers' (NALC's) Food Drive
collected more than 72 million pounds of food to help restock food banks,
pantries and shelters around the country. The annual food drive—the nation's
largest—took place this year on Saturday, May 10, in more than 10,000 cities
in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands
and Guam. Postal customers across the country were asked to leave bags of
non-perishable food next to their mailboxes so letter carriers could pick them
up and deliver them to local food distribution charities. Since the annual drive
began in 1992, more than 1.3 billion pounds of food have been collected and
distributed by NALC and community supporters.
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