Letter Carriers deliver big with food drive
Letter carrier Allison Schmuck, a member of Portland-based National
Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 82, gets a little help from her
husband Allen and dog Kaz at the Stamp Out Hunger food drive sponsored
by NALC. This year, more than 1.33 million pounds of food was collected in
Oregon and Clark County, Wash. In addition, the drive raised $74,459 in cash.
National results were not tabulated at presstime. Close to 4,000 urban and
rural letter carriers in Oregon and Clark County, Wash., joined letter carriers
throughout the nation May 12 to collect food donations from postal customers
while delivering their mail. The event has been billed as the largest one-day
food drive in the nation. “What our letter carriers do on this one day is
amazing,” said Rachel Bristol, CEO of Oregon Food Bank, which collects and
distributes the food through a network of four branches and 16 independent
regional food banks. “This is truly a community effort involving thousands of
volunteers who unload trucks at every post office, box the food, and load it
onto donated semis for delivery to the regional food banks and food pantries.”
JUNE 1, 2012
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
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