Letter Carriers Food Drive

Letter Carriers’
Stamp Out Hunger
Food Drive

May 14, 2011




		South Central Indiana Branch 828

The Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is a nationwide event that takes place annually on the second Saturday in May. For general information about the Food Drive and to learn about its national impact, visit the web site of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) at www.nalc.org/commun/foodrive.

This web site is for local coverage of the Food Drive in the area represented by NALC South Central Indiana Branch 828. This area includes all the communities with city delivery in Greene, Lawrence, Monroe and Owen Counties. It also includes Martinsville in Morgan County, Odon in Daviess County and Orleans in Orange County. Branch 828 assists with the Food Drive in Nashville in Brown County and Paoli in Orange County as well as numerous other communities in the area that do not have city delivery.


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	How does it work? On Saturday, May 14, letter carriers and numerous volunteers pick up donations of food that people have set out by their mailboxes. These donations are brought back to the Post Office where they are sorted while waiting for additional donations to arrive. As sorting containers become full, they are loaded unto trucks provided by local food pantries. By having volunteers assist with picking up the food, and doing the sorting as it comes in, the donations will be ready for use as soon as they arrive at the food pantry. Click here if you would like to help.

		For the past eighteen years, Branch 828 has partnered with Hoosier Hills Food Bank (HHFB) in Bloomington for the Letter Carriers’ Food Drive. HHFB is a central collector and distributor of food. Hoosier Hills Food Bank has a six county service area. All donations from Monroe County go to the Food Bank. Click on the logo at left to visit their web site.

	Donations from outside Monroe County go to agencies serving the area of the donation.



			Bil and Jeff Keane, creators of the Family Circus cartoon strip, create a new cartoon each year for use in the Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.



		Local United Ways and AFL-CIO Central Labor Councils lend support to local NALC Branches.

Thanks to Our Sponsors and Supporters!

Of course the Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive isn’t possible without the support and assistance of the U. S. Postal Service (USPS). The Postal Service provides a transportation network that no other food drive can match.

The National Association of Rural Letter Carriers has been an official sponsor for the past two years. But even before that, rural letter carriers were an indispensable part of the Food Drive since its beginning.

Kroger and JayC Food Stores have given support to local Food Drive efforts for several years by providing plastic grocery bags for distribution in the mail a few days before the Food Drive. A card will be attached to the bags explaining what they are for. Kroger provides bags for use in Monroe County and Martinsville. Kroger also gives other support to Hoosier Hills Food Bank during the year. JayC, a subsidiary of Kroger, provides bags for Lawrence County.

Comcast is providing the funding to print 50,000 postcards customized for the Hoosier Hills Food Bank donations in Monroe County. Comcast employees will also be attaching the bags provided by Kroger to the postcards.

Along with NALC and the Postal Service, Campbell Soup Company provides the most support for the Food Drive. Campbell’s and the Postal Service share the cost of printing millions of postcards that are mailed to households throughout the nation, including the South Central Indiana area outside Monroe County. Campbell’s also donates food and advertising material.

Also supporting the Food Drive as national sponsors are United Way of America, the AFL-CIO, Feeding America (formerly America’s Second Harvest), and Valpak-Cox Target Media.