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Help 'Stamp Out Hunger'—Leave a Bag of Food at Your Mailbox on Saturday

Non-perishable items will be collected by postal carriers today as part of a national food drive.

Before you take your bills out to the mailbox today, throw some canned goods and other non-perishable items in a bag to give to your postal carrier. It's for a good cause—the nation's largest single-day food drive.

In partnership with the Campbells Soup Co. and the United States Postal Service, the National Association of Letter Carriers "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive aims to assist the more than 50 million Americans who are at risk of hunger.

It's easy to help out. Take part in food drive by placing non-perishable food items in a bag and leaving it at your mailbox for your postal carrier on Saturday, May 14.

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They will pick up the food and take it to postal distribution centers, where volunteers will sort it for delivery to nearby food banks and pantries. And someone out there who's hungry will be thankful to you for it.


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