The “Stamp Out Hunger” partnership between the U.S. Postal Service and the Roadrunner Food Bank always delivers just in time to feed the hungry. Andrea Nash, chief development officer for Roadrunner, said the one-day event succeeds through the extra effort of postal workers who collect donations of food in distinctive blue bags, and the volunteers who unload the food from mail trucks to be taken to the Roadrunner warehouse. “We’re so grateful because, in addition to their regular duties of just deliveruing mail, they have to do a lot of extra work picking up all this great food,” Nash said. “We can’t do this drive without them, and like I said, it’s one of the biggest that we have here in the city.”The food drive is important as summer begins. Kids who normally get fed at school may need to eat more at home, Nash said. Then there’s the rising price of food, which makes the generosity of shoppers who bought extra food just to help others all the more admirable. “People might be buying two of their favorite things when they go to the store and donate one to us,” Nash said. “Or they might be just looking at things they intended to eat that they never got around to. It could be your canned food or your pasta or your rice or peanut butter, all the things that we can use year-round.”The “Stamp Out Hunger” delivery may just last one day, but for those who missed the mail carrier, food donations can also be dropped off at Roadrunner’s main office at 5840 Office Boulevard NE Monday through Friday.
The “Stamp Out Hunger” partnership between the U.S. Postal Service and the Roadrunner Food Bank always delivers just in time to feed the hungry.
Andrea Nash, chief development officer for Roadrunner, said the one-day event succeeds through the extra effort of postal workers who collect donations of food in distinctive blue bags, and the volunteers who unload the food from mail trucks to be taken to the Roadrunner warehouse.
“We’re so grateful because, in addition to their regular duties of just deliveruing mail, they have to do a lot of extra work picking up all this great food,” Nash said. “We can’t do this drive without them, and like I said, it’s one of the biggest that we have here in the city.”
The food drive is important as summer begins. Kids who normally get fed at school may need to eat more at home, Nash said. Then there’s the rising price of food, which makes the generosity of shoppers who bought extra food just to help others all the more admirable.
“People might be buying two of their favorite things when they go to the store and donate one to us,” Nash said. “Or they might be just looking at things they intended to eat that they never got around to. It could be your canned food or your pasta or your rice or peanut butter, all the things that we can use year-round.”
The “Stamp Out Hunger” delivery may just last one day, but for those who missed the mail carrier, food donations can also be dropped off at Roadrunner’s main office at 5840 Office Boulevard NE Monday through Friday.
