Help “Stamp Out Hunger” This Saturday

Saturday is your chance to help “Stamp Out Hunger” in our community as the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) runs America’s largest single-day food drive.

Since 1993, the NALC has collected more than one billion pounds of food through its annual nationwide event.

This Saturday, more than 1,500 NALC branches from every state, involving more than 10,000 cities and towns, will have more than 230,000 letter carriers collect non-perishable goods from people’s mailboxes.

Residents can leave non-perishable food in bags next to mailboxes if donations exceed the mailbox size.

According to the NALC, the need for donations is greater than ever. The organization stated, “According to the Agriculture Department's most recent study of food security in the United States in 2009, the number of Americans living in so-called 'food insecure' homes topped 50 million. Of those, 17.2 million are children.”

You can join Stamp Out Hunger on Twitter to follow the national collection online as food is gathered this Saturday.

Residents may have noticed a special bag that arrived in their mailboxes over the course of the week. For those wondering, these are the food banks / ministries your bag(s) will be donated to (residents are urged to donate more than just one bag if they wish):

Residents with a 18064 (Nazareth) zip code:

• Food collected will be donated to the
• If you forget to put out your bag on Saturday, let the post office know and they will make sure to pick it up on Monday.

Residents with a 18020 (Some Lower Nazareth Township) zip code:

• Food collected will be donated to a Lehigh Valley food bank, but the exact name was not known.

Residents with a 18014 (Bath) zip code:

• Food collected will be donated to St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 206 E. Main St., Bath
• Donations can also be dropped off at the post office

Residents with a 18091 (Wind Gap) zip code:

• Food collected will be donated to the St. Joseph’s Food Ministry, 260 N. Lehigh Ave., Wind Gap. This ministry is out of St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church in Pen Argyl.

Residents with a 18085 (Tatamy) zip code:

• Food collected will be donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank

Residents with a 18083 (Stockertown) zip code:

• Food will be collected for a Lehigh Valley food bank, but the exact name was not known. The person organizing the drive through the Stockertown post office was unavailable.

* Residents with a P.O. Box who did not receive a special bag are asked to bring food to their post office in any bag they wish and the food will be donated to the appropriate food bank / ministry.

* If you notice an unmarked vehicle picking up your bag, no worries, it's just off-duty carriers and their families helping out with the collection of bags.