{"id":20183,"date":"2017-07-14T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20183"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:56:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:56:06","slug":"impressive-national-results-for-letter-carriers-annual-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/07\/14\/impressive-national-results-for-letter-carriers-annual-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive National Results for Letter Carriers\u2019 Annual Food Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>25th Food Drive Helps Feed Needy Families in All 50 States<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The 25th annual food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), held on Saturday, May 13, collected 75 million pounds, the third-highest total in the event\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with last year\u2019s record of 80.1 million pounds, that makes a two-year total of 155 million pounds\u2014the highest back-to-back total in the drive\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be able to help people in need by leading an effort that brings out the best in so many Americans,\u201d NALC President Fredric Rolando said.<\/p>\n<p>Hunger affects about 50 million people around the country, including millions of children, senior citizens and veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The Stamp Out Hunger<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Food Drive is the country\u2019s largest single-day food drive. It is held annually on the second Saturday in May in 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6526\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Customers leave their donation of non-perishable goods in paper bags next to their mailbox before the delivery of the mail that day. The nation\u2019s 212,000 letter carriers collect the food donations left and distribute them to local food agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The timing is important, with food banks, pantries and shelters running low on donations from the winter-holidays and with summer looming, when most school meal programs are suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Several national partners assisted the NALC in this year\u2019s food drive: the U.S. Postal Service, United Food &amp; Commercial Workers International Union, National Rural Letter Carriers\u2019 Association, United Way Worldwide, AARP Foundation, AFL-CIO, Valpak and Valassis.<\/p>\n<p>In the quarter-century since it began, the annual food drive has collected almost 1.6 billion pounds of food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/the-postal-record\/2017\/july-2017\/document\/2017-07_fooddrive.pdf\">Click here to read a recap in\u00a0<em>The Postal Record<\/em><\/a>, the monthly journal of the National Association of Letter Carriers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">********<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The 280,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers represents letter carriers across the country employed by the U.S. Postal Service, along with retired letter carriers. Founded by Civil War veterans in 1889, the NALC is among the country\u2019s oldest labor unions.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25th Food Drive Helps Feed Needy Families in All 50 States WASHINGTON \u2013 The 25th annual food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), held on Saturday, May 13, collected 75 million pounds, the third-highest total in the event\u2019s history. Combined with last year\u2019s record of 80.1 million pounds, that makes a two-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20184,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20183\/revisions\/20184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}