NALC MEMBERS STAMP OUT HUNGER!

Every second Saturday in May, letter carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns across America collect the goodness and compassion of their postal customers, who participate in the NALC "Stamp Out! Hunger" National Food Drive — the largest one-day food drive in the nation. This year in Georgia, members of NALC, Branch 73, took part in the 25th year of the annual Food Drive by collecting food donations troughout the state and delivering them to local community food banks, pantries and shelters. 

The national food drive was a multi-union effort. UFCW’s sponsorship helped to pay for the millions of postcards and brown bags that arrived in every residential mailbox in the country shortly before Saturday, May 13. Furthermore, the Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council facilitated donations from all the union affiliates and helped spread the word throughout the metro area. Articles about the drive, before and after Saturday, May 13, ran in hundreds of news outlets—print, web and radio. In Atlanta, NALC 73 President Eric Sloane joined Assistant Vice President Stephanie Matthews and Food Drive Coordinator Eileen Ford  for several interviews to promote the big day. 

The tally for this year’s drive, as of the June 2017 Postal Record’s deadline, was 71 million pounds of food collected in more than 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states (including Georgia), plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This figure brought the quarter-century total to more than 1.5 billion pounds.