The Annual Letter Carriers' Food Drive

On Saturday, May 8th, we ask that everyone in the Albuquerque area put food out at their mailboxes as donations to help feed the poor and hungry in the metro area. 

For more than a decade, the National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, and the U.S. Postal Service have teamed up to collect food donated by postal customers.  Ten stations will participate in this year's drive.  The letter carriers will bring the donated food in from their routes while Food Bank volunteers & staff process the donations on the dock and load it all into trailers destined for the Food Bank on Saturday evening.    

This is a very important food drive for those in need in our area.  At this time of year, food supplies are typically low and, with the ever increasing demand, our area food pantries need more supplies to feed families during the summer after school is out. 

Please put out some of your excess food items on Saturday, May 8th to help our pantries feed the hungry this summer.

If you miss your letter carrier with your food donation on May 8th, Smith’s Food and Drug  Store will have barrels in their stores until Sunday, May 16th.  Feel free to take your non-perishable food donation to Smith’s or bring it directly to Roadrunner Food Bank.

GREAT IDEA!

Don't have any extra food at the house?  Don't have time to go to the market?  Not going to be at home on Saturday?  Don't worry, there's another great way to participate in our Food Drives! 

Try our "Online Food Drive!"  This is a wonderful opportunity to participate in food drives without even going to the market! 

Click on the link below to go to our Online Food Drive page:

ONLINE FOOD DRIVE

Special THANKS go out to the following groups for their

continued support of this food drive and the Food Bank:

Trailers and Transportation

Sysco Food Services, Southwest Great Dane, Yellow Freight, Ryder Trucks

Volunteer Groups who will work at Albuquerque Post Offices

Dept of Energy Employees, Paradise Hills Methodist Church, Rio Grande BNI, National Association of Letter Carriers, United States Postal Service

Local Sponsors of this year's Food Drive

Smiths Food & Drug Stores, KOB Channel 4 TV, KRST-92.3FM, KOB-FM-93.3, Sandia National Labs & Lockheed Martin, the Albuquerque Journal

and most of all

to the Wonderful Letter Carriers, Managers, and MODs

at the following metro Postal Stations:

Academy, Five Points, Foothills, Highland, Main, Manzano, North Valley, Richard Pino, Steve Schiff, Uptown Station, Airport Station