Postal Service employees collected 44 million pounds of food during this year’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive, which was held May 11.
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) leads the annual one-day drive, with help from USPS and other organizations.
“Letter carriers showed up again for their communities and helped ensure that the needs of the hungry are met in every city and town in the United States,” said NALC President Brian Renfroe.
The drive helps to relieve shortages that food pantries experience in spring and summer after holiday donations have been depleted.
Most school meal programs are not available in the summer, so the need for food grows.
Since NALC’s first national food drive in 1993, active and retired letter carriers, with the help of volunteers, have collected more than 1.9 billion pounds of food.