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NALC Food Drive - 75,000 lbs.!

In the second Saturday of May, letter carriers collected over 70.7 million pounds of food donations in the nation's largest one-day effort to combat hunger. Locally letter carriers collected 75,000 pounds of food which was delivered to River Bend Foodbank on May 12, 2007.

Across the nation, 70,745,176 pounds of non-perishable food were collected along postal routes on Saturday, May 12, in over 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions. The amount was a slight increase over last year and the fourth consecutive year the union's "Stamp Out Hunger" drive has exceeded 70 million pounds. It brought the total for the drive's 15 years to over 836 million pounds.

This year's total was augmented by the donation of 1 million pounds of products by Campbell Soup Company to foodbanks throughout the United States on behalf of the drive.

We can never thank enough, the millions of American families who left food by their mailboxes and the thousands of letter carriers, rural carriers, and other postal employees and volunteers who collected, processed, and delivered the donations to local foodbanks and pantries.

Even in these difficult times, when many family budgets are pressured by high gasoline prices, the Quad Cities showed its generosity toward those who are less fortunate. Too many families - including working Americans, children and the elderly - face hunger every day. We are proud to deliver donations from our postal customers to restock community foodbanks and pantries.