Letter carriers like Corey Acklin are collecting the items as they make their deliveries today.
You don’t need a stamp. You don’t have to weigh your package. You don’t even have to leave your property.
But you can still deliver a big helping hand to those in need.
Thanks to letter carriers across the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro area, residents can make a donation of nonperishable food items Saturday that will get special delivery to four local food pantries.
This marks the 25th anniversary of the “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive in the metro area.
Mail customers are asked to put food items in a bag and place the bag next to their mailbox early Saturday.
Many mail customers will receive a special food donation bag from their letter carriers this week. The bags are sponsored by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 22 and National Electrical Contractors Association of Nebraska.
But any bag will do.
Local members of NALC Branch 5 and Rural National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO, will collect the donated food along their mail routes. They will unload the bags at local post offices, where volunteers from area labor unions and AFL-CIO/United Way of the Midlands Labor Liaisons will place them into containers for trucks to transport to the food pantries at the Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Siena-Francis House and Stephen Center.
