You don't have to be a Boy Scout...
...to do a good deed. Janet reminds us that there's still time to put a bag of cans and dry goods out by the mailbox today for the letter carriers' food bank drive. Take it from a former food bank director - this one matters. It's a lot of extra work for the postal workers, but the results are well worth the effort and I'm sure that they won't mind if you make their load a few cans heavier.
Our donation is already by the box. Is yours?
Labels: Food Banks, Food Drive, Food Security, Letter Carriers
posted by Shaun at
9:46 AM
3 Comments:
Folks at the Olympic View apartments in Maple Leaf, left several bags of canned food; so they did their part.
As someone who admittedly has been using the North Helpline's Lake City-Northgate Food Bank, I'd ask people to remember - when they donate in future weeks at cans in places such as QFC - to throw in some food for companion animals.
The Lake City-Northgate Food Bank benefits from contributions from the local office of the U.S. Humane Society for users' companion animals (available on the second Saturday of every month); so interested parties can give to the Humane Society (local office in Bellevue, exact contact info via Google), or via cans at QFCs, etc.
Thanks so much for posting Shaun!
I heard from a neighbor who met the mail carrier whose truck was loaded to the gills with bags of donations.
Pretty cool!
You betcha, Janet. Thanks for having such great info to link to!
Back when I was working at the Seattle Indian Center food bank I spent a Saturday at the International District PO helping the carriers unload their trucks into huge bins for shipping and sorting. The ID routes included a lot of not so prosperous stops, but the mail trucks came back packed all day. I did spot a mailman making his rounds with three shopping bags already in hand, and made it a point to thank him and his brothers and sisters in the postal unions for their efforts.
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