The Batesville Post Office will hold its annual food drive for Batesville Help and Hope on May 8.
The 2009 food drive was a success, as the carriers collected more than 6,000 pounds of food for the nonprofit organization, said Doug Davis, who serves as the food drive coordinator for the NALC Local Union 1684.
The week of the event, postal customers will receive postcard reminders in their mailboxes.
“People can put their donations in their mailbox, hang them from their mailbox or put them under their mailbox,” Davis said.
He said the carriers pick up a lot of Campbell’s soup, which is one of the sponsors of the drive with the letter carriers, as well as many other canned goods, but any nonperishable food items are accepted (canned meats and fish, soup, juice, pasta, vegetables, cereal and rice).
Also, the post office asks that people not donate items that have expired or anything in glass containers.
If customers wish to donate money, they may make out their checks to NALC with “food drive” in the comments portion of the check, Davis said.
The annual food drive is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers, which has held the drive for the past 18 years. Last year, 73.4 million pounds of food was collected across the United States, making it the largest one-day food drive in the nation.
To further help the cause, Davis said “Family Circus” cartoonists Bil and Jeff Keane create a cartoon every year to promote the food drive, which actually started in 1993. It was organized for the second Saturday in May after the NALC received input from food banks and pantries that suggested late spring would be a good time since by then most food banks in the country start running out of donations received during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday periods.
From Alaska to Florida and Maine to Hawaii, letter carriers did double duty — delivering mail and picking up donations. That first year, 11 million pounds of food were collected along postal routes. Now, that number has increased sevenfold, Davis said.
In Batesville, the drive got under way in 2005, when Davis transferred here from Searcy.
“It’s increased every year,” he said. “It’s always a big pile.”
Both the city and rural carriers participate. Davis said he has done a city walking route before on food drive day, and he would put the donations out by the street while he delivered mail, then drove by in his truck to pick them up.
More than 35 million people face hunger every day in America, including 12 million children — this drive is one way people can help those in their own town who need help, Davis said.
For more information about the food drive, call the Batesville Post Office at (870) 793-6828 or visit www.helpstampouthunger.com.
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The 2009 food drive was a success, as the carriers collected more than 6,000 pounds of food for the nonprofit organization, said Doug Davis, who serves as the food drive coordinator for the NALC Local Union 1684.
The week of the event, postal customers will receive postcard reminders in their mailboxes.
“People can put their donations in their mailbox, hang them from their mailbox or put them under their mailbox,” Davis said.
He said the carriers pick up a lot of Campbell’s soup, which is one of the sponsors of the drive with the letter carriers, as well as many other canned goods, but any nonperishable food items are accepted (canned meats and fish, soup, juice, pasta, vegetables, cereal and rice).
Also, the post office asks that people not donate items that have expired or anything in glass containers.
If customers wish to donate money, they may make out their checks to NALC with “food drive” in the comments portion of the check, Davis said.
The annual food drive is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers, which has held the drive for the past 18 years. Last year, 73.4 million pounds of food was collected across the United States, making it the largest one-day food drive in the nation.
To further help the cause, Davis said “Family Circus” cartoonists Bil and Jeff Keane create a cartoon every year to promote the food drive, which actually started in 1993. It was organized for the second Saturday in May after the NALC received input from food banks and pantries that suggested late spring would be a good time since by then most food banks in the country start running out of donations received during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday periods.
From Alaska to Florida and Maine to Hawaii, letter carriers did double duty — delivering mail and picking up donations. That first year, 11 million pounds of food were collected along postal routes. Now, that number has increased sevenfold, Davis said.
In Batesville, the drive got under way in 2005, when Davis transferred here from Searcy.
“It’s increased every year,” he said. “It’s always a big pile.”
Both the city and rural carriers participate. Davis said he has done a city walking route before on food drive day, and he would put the donations out by the street while he delivered mail, then drove by in his truck to pick them up.
More than 35 million people face hunger every day in America, including 12 million children — this drive is one way people can help those in their own town who need help, Davis said.
For more information about the food drive, call the Batesville Post Office at (870) 793-6828 or visit www.helpstampouthunger.com.
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The 2009 food drive was a success, as the carriers collected more than 6,000 pounds of food for the nonprofit organization, said Doug Davis, who serves as the food drive coordinator for the NALC Local Union 1684.
The week of the event, postal customers will receive postcard reminders in their mailboxes.
“People can put their donations in their mailbox, hang them from their mailbox or put them under their mailbox,” Davis said.
He said the carriers pick up a lot of Campbell’s soup, which is one of the sponsors of the drive with the letter carriers, as well as many other canned goods, but any nonperishable food items are accepted (canned meats and fish, soup, juice, pasta, vegetables, cereal and rice).
Also, the post office asks that people not donate items that have expired or anything in glass containers.
If customers wish to donate money, they may make out their checks to NALC with “food drive” in the comments portion of the check, Davis said.
The annual food drive is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers, which has held the drive for the past 18 years. Last year, 73.4 million pounds of food was collected across the United States, making it the largest one-day food drive in the nation.
To further help the cause, Davis said “Family Circus” cartoonists Bil and Jeff Keane create a cartoon every year to promote the food drive, which actually started in 1993. It was organized for the second Saturday in May after the NALC received input from food banks and pantries that suggested late spring would be a good time since by then most food banks in the country start running out of donations received during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday periods.
From Alaska to Florida and Maine to Hawaii, letter carriers did double duty — delivering mail and picking up donations. That first year, 11 million pounds of food were collected along postal routes. Now, that number has increased sevenfold, Davis said.
In Batesville, the drive got under way in 2005, when Davis transferred here from Searcy.
“It’s increased every year,” he said. “It’s always a big pile.”
Both the city and rural carriers participate. Davis said he has done a city walking route before on food drive day, and he would put the donations out by the street while he delivered mail, then drove by in his truck to pick them up.
More than 35 million people face hunger every day in America, including 12 million children — this drive is one way people can help those in their own town who need help, Davis said.
For more information about the food drive, call the Batesville Post Office at (870) 793-6828 or visit www.helpstampouthunger.com.
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The 2009 food drive was a success, as the carriers collected more than 6,000 pounds of food for the nonprofit organization, said Doug Davis, who serves as the food drive coordinator for the NALC Local Union 1684.
The week of the event, postal customers will receive postcard reminders in their mailboxes.
“People can put their donations in their mailbox, hang them from their mailbox or put them under their mailbox,” Davis said.
He said the carriers pick up a lot of Campbell’s soup, which is one of the sponsors of the drive with the letter carriers, as well as many other canned goods, but any nonperishable food items are accepted (canned meats and fish, soup, juice, pasta, vegetables, cereal and rice).
Also, the post office asks that people not donate items that have expired or anything in glass containers.
If customers wish to donate money, they may make out their checks to NALC with “food drive” in the comments portion of the check, Davis said.
The annual food drive is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers, which has held the drive for the past 18 years. Last year, 73.4 million pounds of food was collected across the United States, making it the largest one-day food drive in the nation.
To further help the cause, Davis said “Family Circus” cartoonists Bil and Jeff Keane create a cartoon every year to promote the food drive, which actually started in 1993. It was organized for the second Saturday in May after the NALC received input from food banks and pantries that suggested late spring would be a good time since by then most food banks in the country start running out of donations received during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday periods.
From Alaska to Florida and Maine to Hawaii, letter carriers did double duty — delivering mail and picking up donations. That first year, 11 million pounds of food were collected along postal routes. Now, that number has increased sevenfold, Davis said.
In Batesville, the drive got under way in 2005, when Davis transferred here from Searcy.
“It’s increased every year,” he said. “It’s always a big pile.”
Both the city and rural carriers participate. Davis said he has done a city walking route before on food drive day, and he would put the donations out by the street while he delivered mail, then drove by in his truck to pick them up.
More than 35 million people face hunger every day in America, including 12 million children — this drive is one way people can help those in their own town who need help, Davis said.
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