Leave food donations
by mailbox on Saturday
Letter carriers and post offices throughout the state will collect food donations from customers Saturday as part the nation's largest one-day drive to stamp out hunger.
This is the 12th annual food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers. The donations will go to the Hawaii Foodbank, which received 305,356 pounds of food last year.
Residents should place nonperishable food items next to their mailboxes for pickup before their usual mail pickup time. The most-needed canned items are meats, pastas, soups, pork and beans, vegetables and fruits. Packaged dry beans, pasta, rice and cereal are also needed.
Where residential delivery is not available on the neighbor islands, post offices will collect donations this week.
The letter carriers' food drive collected 61.7 million pounds of food nationally last year.
Other sponsors of the drive are the U.S. Postal Service, Campbell Soup Co., America's Second Harvest, Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, the United Way and the AFL-CIO Community Services network.