Stamp Out Hunger food drive scheduled for Saturday

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — You can help fill the shelves of the Greater Lansing Food Bank on Saturday—and you won’t even need to leave your driveway.

The National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is scheduled for Saturday. To participate, leave a bag of nonperishible, unexpired food donations near the mailbox. Food bank volunteers and letter carriers will handle the rest.

The drive has been held every year since 1993, ever since a few NALC leaders had the idea to make scattered, individual food collections a coordinated, nationwide effort. 10 cities held a pilot drive in October 1991 and a revamped drive was held in May 1993—gathering more than 11 million pounds of food…

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