Editorial: Stamp Out Hunger food drive Saturday

Published 10:00 am Friday, May 10, 2019

By Staff reports

Postal workers are getting ready to handle some extra packages this weekend.

If you see bags of food out beside mailboxes Saturday, lining up and down neighborhood roads, don’t be surprised.

Each one of the bags will contain food for the Postal Service and the United Way of South Central Georgia’s annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive.

It’s the 27th year for Stamp Out Hunger.

Every second Saturday in May, letter carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns across America collect the goodness and compassion of their postal customers who participate in the NALC (National Association of Letter Carriers) Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive — the largest one-day food drive in the nation, says the USPS.

In the previous 26 years, the food drive has brought in more than 1.5 billion pounds of donated food.

Tifton and Tift County residents donate every year to help feed our fellow residents.

The donations feed thousands each year.

If you regularly participate in the postal food drive, let’s keep it going this year.

If you have never participated, now’s the perfect time.

By Friday, you should receive a bag by mail to place the food in.

Simply place what you can afford to give, whether one can or several cans or some other type of non-perishable food item, from your cupboard.

In a pinch, any sturdy bag will do.

Return the bag to the mailbox Saturday morning before your mail carrier’s regular arrival time.

Postal workers will pick up the bags as they deliver Saturday’s mail.