This Saturday, donating food to charity is as easy as walking to your doorstep. On May 10, members of the Letter Carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns across the nation will take part in NALC’s 11th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Carriers are asking residents to leave nonperishable food items in paper bags or boxes near their mailboxes. Carriers then will pick up the donations, which will be delivered to local food banks and pantries. In New York City and Chicago, carriers are asking citizens to take their donations to the local post offices during the week of May 5–10.

NALC, along with the U.S. Postal Service, the AFL-CIO, local United Way organizations, the Campbell Soup Co. and America’s Second Harvest, sponsors the nation’s largest one-day food drive, collecting a record 62.7 million pounds of food in 2002. The USPS and Campbell Soup sent more than 105 million postcards featuring Olympic gold medalist Sarah Hughes, special ambassador for the drive, and a cartoon by “Family Circus” artist Bil Keane. A special kickoff ceremony May 6 in Garden City, N.Y., featured Hughes and Long Island letter carriers.

“Millions of children face hunger every day despite the great resources of this nation,” says NALC President William Young. “Letter carriers are proud to lend a helping hand…in this yearly effort to stamp out hunger,” he says, noting no other group in America “can do what we do to fight hunger, reaching into every city and town, every neighborhood and on every street.”

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Learn more about the Letter Carriers and the union’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive.

Download the Bil Keane Stamp Out Hunger cartoon.