Record-Setting NALC Food Drive 'Stamps Out Hunger' With Nearly 2 Million Pounds in SFL

NALC Branch 1690 Food Drive Coordinator Starr Hunter (fifth from left) and West Palm Beach Postmaster Sal Vacca (sixth from left) join community representatives who support the “Stamp Out Hunger” effort in South Florida. Photo: JoAnn Goodrich

West Palm Beach Postmaster Sal Vacca (L) and Palm Central managers and carriers are pleased with the results of this year’s food drive. Photo: JoAnn Goodrich

Key Largo carriers are proud of their food drive. Photo: Cindy Smith

The annual National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, held May 8 in partnership with the Postal Service, collected a record 77.1 million pounds of non-perishable food. The results of the event easily eclipsed the previous record of 73.4 million pounds in 2009.

South Florida city and rural letter carriers collected nearly two million pounds of canned goods this year!

Stamp Out Hunger — the nation’s largest one-day food drive — annually collects non-perishable food to help more than 35 million people, including 12 million children, who face hunger every day in America. Despite a continued downturn in the economy, Americans boosted their donations, increasing the 18-year total to more than 1 billion pounds.