Amy Besunder, Executive Director of North Helpline sent us the following email:
We just learned a major source of our food supply, the letter carrier’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive, collected 23% less food than last year. And yet the demand at our food bank is up 30% over last year. We are very low on sources of protein and could use donations of canned tuna, chicken, corned beef, chili & peanut butter or frozen packages of meat. For the first time I can remember since starting here two years ago, we had to open the food bank with any offerings of protein for our clients.
Part of the problem may be a lack of enthusiasm on the mail carrier's side. This is the second year in a row that I've put out a bag of canned goods and the mail carrier has failed to take it away.
I also quit giving to this drive a few years ago when the mail carrier failed to take the food I left.