Stamp Out Hunger in South Brunswick on Saturday

Letter carriers across the country will be on the receiving end of some special deliveries on Saturday during the nationwide "Stamp Out Hunger" campaign, America’s largest single-day food drive.

This Saturday, over 1,500 National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC)  branches from each state will have more than 230,000 letter carriers collect non-perishable goods from people’s mailboxes, according to the NALC.  The program is being run in more than 10,000 cities and towns, including locally at the Kendall Park Post Office, which will be donating collected food items to the South Brunswick Food Pantry.

"Stamp out Hunger has been part of our program for many years and it is a huge help to the pantry," said Social Services Director LouAnne Wolf.

The NALC said Campbell’s, a long supporter of the drive, will donate one pound of food (up to one million pounds) to Feeding America for every person who joins the Stamp Out Hunger Facebook community. People can also join Stamp Out Hunger on Twitter to follow the national collection online as food is gathered this Saturday. 

 The NALC stated, “According to the Agriculture Department's most recent study of food security in the United States in 2009, the number of Americans living in so-called 'food insecure' homes topped 50 million. Of those, 17.2 million are children.”

All donations should be left at by the mailbox on Saturday and carriers in Kendall Park will collect the food during their normal delivery time, according to Cynthia Weiss of the Kendall Park Post Office.  Residents can leave non-perishable food in bags next to mailboxes if donations exceed the mailbox size.  

Also, donations can be dropped off in the lobby of the Kendall Park Post Office located at 3124 Route 27, Kendall Park.

The South Brunswick Food Pantry is in need of the following items:

• Cereal
• Oatmeal
• Snack foods
• Canned Meats (stews, chili, canned chicken, etc.)
• Water
• Juice Boxes 
• Coffee
• Peanut Butter and jelly
• Chef Boyardee canned pastas
• Macaroni and cheese
• Water and juice

The Kendall Park Post Office asks residents to please not donate items in glass containers.