NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive with the Post Office is back this Saturday, May 14.
"We are so happy to be back having it this year," said Josh Estrella with the Postal Workers Union. "It's been a long two years without having our food drive. We're happy to get back at it this year."
There will not be bags in your mailbox this year, but they do plan on putting the reminder cards in.
"If it's in a sack, that makes it easiest for us to grab it and put it back in our mail trucks," Estrella said. "The food bank does like to have a variety of items, such as mac and cheese, canned vegetables, fruit, things like that. We just do ask that customers might want to check their expiration dates on items."
They can take monetary donations either cash in an envelope or a check as long as its clearly marked for the Reno County Food Bank.
"The last couple of years before COVID, we've been able to pick up around 30,000 pounds of food," Estrella said. "That is a lot of food."
Please put your food out near your mailbox sometime between now and Saturday so that they can pick it up and get it to the food bank as soon as possible.