Donate Food With Your Mail on Saturday

You know that bag of food you’ve been meaning to drop off at the local food pantry? This Saturday, your mail carrier will do the work for you.

May 12 marks the 20th annual Stamp Out Hunger, and it couldn’t be easier to participate. Simply put a bag of nonperishable food out with your mail. Local postal workers will collect it on his or her route and deliver it to the in Morris Plains.

Postal workers in will take the food to the annex of the . Volunteers from the Kiwanis Club of the Chathams and the Morris County Youth Shelter will transport the food to the Interfaith Food Pantry, according to Kiwanian Ron Whalin.

Donations tend to drop during the summer, and donations during Stamp Out Hunger help feed the hungry in Morris County through the holiday season.

Stamp Out Hunger is the nation’s largest single-day food collection drive, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Last year, carriers picked up 70 million pounds of food. 

For a complete list of needed items go to www.mcifp.org and click on "Current Needs List".

Look for a Stamp Out Hunger bag to arrive in your mailbox very soon, or just put your own bag out on Saturday.