The Alamo Branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) knows someone who will, and the labor organization is calling on San Antonio to help feed its own.
The NALC has held its annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive for 32 years, and for this installment, San Antonio letter carriers have an ambitious goal: collecting a record-breaking 500,000 pounds of food in one day. The group is asking Alamo City residents to help by donating at least one pound of food by leaving it in their mailbox on Saturday, May 11.
NALC's local chapter has provided plastic bags to more than 800,000 San Antonio-area households, all to be filled with non-perishable food items and returned to mailboxes on May 11. Letter carriers do the rest by collecting the donations along their usual routes.
All the donations will go to the San Antonio Food Bank, which serves more than 100,000 individuals weekly. This time of year, food donations from Thanksgiving and Christmas begin to peter out, and the nonprofit sometimes struggles to keep its pantries full.
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