Mail carriers do their part to stamp out hunger

 

300,000 mail carriers nationwide participated in the 16th annual Stamp Out Hunger campaign, reportedly the country's largest one-day food drive. The National Association of Letter Carriers partnered with local food banks Saturday with a goal of collecting more than 500,000 pounds of food from Orange County residents.

Residents were asked to put grocery bags with canned and nonperishable items next to their mailboxes to be picked up. Donations were then boxed by volunteers and shipped to food banks such as Community Action Partnership's Orange County Food Bank for distribution.

About 70 million pounds of food was collected across the country last year. About 550,000 pounds of that came from Orange County.