Re: USPS Food Drive 5/10/2025

On 5/2/2025 7:05 PM, Ed P wrote:

On 5/2/2025 6:06 PM, Jill McQuown wrote:

I found a card from the USPS in the mailbox today:
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The second Saturday in May, the US Postal Service will be collecting food for the needy.  (They may or may not be participating in your area; best to check locally.)
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I make a point of donating to the local food bank a few times a year. It's a bonus whenever the USPS offers to pick it up.  Be sure to put the flag up on the mailbox so they know to pick up your donation.
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The question arises, what should be donated?  For one thing, they don't want items in glass jars.  The issue there is breakage.  They do prefer canned items have pop-top lids although not everything in cans comes with those type lids.
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I already have a number of things in the pantry (dried pasta, canned tomato sauce, some dried beans) I will put in the donation bag on 5/10. I'll also be making a separate shopping trip to add a few items including canned fruit and some canned vegetables.
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Anyone else in the US know about the upcoming food drive?  Are you planning to participate?
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Jill

  We always did in CT, but I've not seen anything here.  Many communities have cluster boxes so no way to leave anything except on the ground. Outgoing mail goes into a slot.
 

The houses here have standard size mailboxes (mine is across the street next to the mailbox for the house across the street) but the food donations are still left in a bag on the ground.

My box is across the street but there are 48 of them so people have to come from other streets for mail here.
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That doesn't sound very convenient for the people who live on the other streets.

A couple of miles from me there is a box on the road for donations. looks like a newspaper box.People leave all sort of both canned and fresh picked there.

That's nice. :)
Jill