Overview
- Letter carriers, who will make collections Saturday, May 9, ask residents to leave sealed, shelf-stable food in a bag by the mailbox before regular delivery.
- Organizers ask for canned goods, pasta, rice, cereal and peanut butter, and they urge donors to skip glass, expired or opened items.
- In Missoula, the food bank set a 10,000-pound goal after collecting about 7,000 pounds last year, with in-person drop-offs Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at Rosauers, Pattee Creek Market, and Albertsons on East Broadway and North Reserve.
- Across Tampa Bay, Metropolitan Ministries is a named beneficiary, and past drives there have delivered more than 520,000 pounds that stayed to feed local families.
- The National Association of Letter Carriers says the drive is the nation’s largest one-day food collection, topping 1.8 billion pounds since the early 1990s as it fills a post-holiday donation gap.