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Stamp Out Hunger! Saturday May 13 -- Donate Food, Postal Workers Will Pickup |
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by ML
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11 May 2006
Modified: 11:01:28 AM |
When: Saturday, May 13
Where: Everywhere There's a Mailbox
What: Help "Stamp Out Hunger" by bagging up non-perishable food items and leaving it by your mailbox. Your letter carrier will pick it up and take it to the local food bank .
Who: National Association of Letter Carriers, in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service |
When: Saturday, May 13
Where: Everywhere There's a Mailbox
What: Help "Stamp Out Hunger" by bagging up non-perishable food items and leaving it by your mailbox. Your letter carrier will pick it up and take it to the local food bank .
Who: National Association of Letter Carriers, in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service
I've been donating to this every year for quite some time. In the year since UC IMC purchased the old downtown post office and turned it into a community center that enables the production of media and art, I have personally worked closely with and gotten to know better a number of those who work for the post office. They're great people doing an often thankless job well. The bureaucracy at the top can be a little creaky at times, but most everyone I've encountered really cares about their community and the service they offer. I think events like this show how deep these principles are.
It's an easy way you can help postal workers help those less fortunate. All you need to do is put non-perishable food items in a bag -- this makes it easier to pick up -- and put it by your mailbox before your mail comes on Saturday.
If you are a student clearing out your apartment or house for the summer, this a good way to getting your pantry ready for a move by simply leaving many of the things you don't want to haul away to help Stamp Out Hunger.
Almost any kind of canned good, plus boxed pasta and other mixes, are good things to donate. They ask that expired items and those in glass containers NOT be donated.
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www.stampouthunger2006.com |
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