FLORENCE — Area postal carriers are gearing up for the 26th annual National Association of Letter Carriers and Rural Carriers Food Drive on May 12.Â
Local coordinator Steven McCrary said this year's collection goal is 95,000 pounds of canned and other non-perishable foods.
"It's as easy a process as any food drive ever because you just leave the food at your mailbox on May 12 and we (letter carriers) will pick it up," McCrary said.
The food drive is part of the "Stamp Out Hunger" national effort that has been an annual event since 1993. Nationally, the drive has collected more than $1.5 billion pounds of food. Last year's drive collected 75 million pounds.
Residents are asked to leave the non-perishable food donations in a bag in or near the mailbox.
"Even a few cans mean a lot," McCrary said. "Everyone can give something."
According to McCrary, postal installation involvement was down last year but this year seems to have picked back up.Â
"Flyers will be going out to remind people all that week of the drive," he said. "We have participants from throughout Colbert, Lauderdale and Franklin counties, and even Moulton in Lawrence County."
The food donations go to more than 40 area church pantries and charitable organizations to be dispersed to feed the hungry.Â
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