Gleaners Community Food Bank is reminding Detroit area residents to leave
nonperishable food items at their mailbox on Saturday, May 13th. The 8th
Annual National Association of Letter Carriers/United States Postal Service
Food Drive will collect the food to help families in need in the community
and take the donations to the Post Office to be delivered to Gleaners
Community Food Bank that day.
This is one of the most successful food drives ever! Gleaners Community
Food Bank has reserved space for the more than 300 thousand pounds of food
expected to be collected by the Letter Carriers. Last year, more than
376,000 pounds were collected bringing the total to 1.9 million pounds
collected over the past eight years.
Campbell’s Soups, which has been feeding America for over 100 years, will
supply a reminder notice that the letter carriers will deliver to more than
600,000 southeast Michigan residents the week of May 8th. Gleaners and the
Letter Carriers will team up for a kick-off press conference Thursday, May
11th at 10 a.m. A caravan of Postal Service vehicles, with police escort,
will travel through downtown Detroit and arrive at Gleaners for the press
conference where officials will announce more details on the national food
drive.
