National Association of Letter Carriers’ Annual Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive

The National Association of Letter Carriers’ annual Stamp Out Hunger^® Food Drive will be held on Saturday, May 10. The letter carrier food drive, which began in 1993, is the country’s largest single-day food drive.

Each year, the Stamp Out Hunger drive is held on the second Saturday in May. Letter carriers in cities and towns across the United States collect donations of non-perishable food items left by residents in bags near their mailboxes before that day’s mail delivery.

Thousands of volunteers nationwide then help distribute the food items to local food pantries, with all food collected staying in the local community.

“Letter carriers see every day the struggles that people in their communities face,” NALC President Brian L. Renfroe said. “For more than three decades, we’ve helped to meet their needs, and we are proud to do so again.”

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, including millions of children, elderly and veterans, are unsure where their next meal will come from. The timing of the letter carrier food drive is significant—by spring, food pantries are largely depleted of winter holiday food donations, and school lunch programs are about to close for the summer.

The annual food drive wouldn’t be possible without the support of NALC’s national partners: the U.S. Postal Service, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, RR Donnelley, United Way Worldwide, the AFL-CIO, Valpak, Kellanova and CVS Health. These partners help by paying for the specially marked postcards, donating thousands of pounds of food and thousands of dollars to food pantries, donating paper bags that letter carriers distribute to customers, gathering volunteers, or getting out the message about the food drive.