from M Live dot-com (Michigan Live: April 2012):
The National Association of Letter Carriers "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive is May 12 with a regional goal of collecting 90,000 pounds of food for area emergency feeding programs.
Donations can be made by leaving non-perishable unopened goods by mailboxes on the morning of May 12. Letter carriers will collect them and deliver them to area feeding programs.
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Did not succeed in May 2012 -- here are reported details to local media (Niles Star dot-com):
Donations to the Niles post office food drive plummeted to a new low this year.
A total of just more than 20,000 pounds of nonperishable food was collected on Saturday, down about 8,000 pounds from the year prior.
Food collected through the drive is distributed to three area food pantries: Niles Salvation Army, Christian Service Center and First Presbyterian Church.
Scott Lolmaugh, volunteer coordinator at the Niles Salvation Army, said his organization received 6,380 pounds from the drive, down 3,000 pounds from a year ago.
“It’s a significant amount less,” he said.
Lolmaugh said food collected during last year’s drive lasted until around September. He expects this year’s collection will last until July or August.
“We’re going to have to do something a little different than last year,” Lolmaugh said. “We’re going to have to work harder to solicit donations and do it a little sooner. We’ll have little drives here and there.”
The annual post office food drive is typically the largest single-day food drive of the year, meaning area food pantries rely heavily on it to function.
Food drive numbers have been on a steady decline for the past several years, Lolmaugh said.
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