JAMESTOWN – The United Way of Southern Chautauqua County is announcing that the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its 22nd Stamp Out Hunger Food driver on Saturday, May 10. It’s the nation’s largest single-day food drive, with letter carriers in 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states, collecting bags of non-perishable food donations as they deliver mail along their postal routes.
In southern Chautauqua County organizers ask residents to help once again this year by leaving a bag at their mailbox for their letter carrier to pick up. All non-perishable items are accepted, with the exception of glass jars.
The items will be collected during normal mail delivery and then dropped off by each letter carrier to the Salvation Army in Jamestown.
Last year’s effort generated 74.4 million pounds of donated food across the nation and an impressive 7,000 pounds in this community.
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