WESTFIELD – On Saturday, the National Association of Letter Carriers will conduct their annual food drive.
The NALC, in conjunction with the United States Postal Service, will collect non-perishable food items to benefit local food pantries that distribute it to neighbors in need.
Postal patrons will be asked to leave food items by their mailboxes, which will then be picked up by the letter carriers for distribution to the food pantries in their own cities and towns.
All major cities and towns in western Massachusetts with uniformed letter carriers will be participating in the drive. This is the 22nd anniversary of the food drive.
Nationally, this has been the largest one-day food collection in the world with 74 million pounds of food collected in 2013. Locally, Western Mass. Branch 46 delivered over 155,000 pounds to local food pantries.
The NALC food drive’s 21-year national total is nearly 1.3 billion pounds.
