{"id":659,"date":"2025-05-10T11:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/?p=659"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:18:07","slug":"stamp-out-hunger-food-drive-today-leave-food-donations-by-your-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/stamp-out-hunger-food-drive-today-leave-food-donations-by-your-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive TODAY: Leave Food Donations by Your Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Team up with your letter carrier to help Stamp Out Hunger! Donating to this food drive is so easy!&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11121337 size-large skip-lazy lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"hand holding a bag filled with food donations next to a mail box for the stamp out hunger food drive\" width=\"912\" height=\"684\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/stamp-out-hunger-food-drive-donations.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Today, May 10th only, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is holding its annual <a target=\"_blank\">Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive<\/a>! All food donations will stay in the local community, going directly to nearby food banks, pantries, shelters, and churches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro lead\"><strong>Here&rsquo;s how to participate &#128071;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today, May 10th, place non-perishable food items in a bag.<\/li>\n<li>Place the bag near your mailbox before your regular mail delivery.<\/li>\n<li>That&rsquo;s it! Your mail carrier will do the rest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10828266 size-large lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"girls donating food to a letter carrier\" width=\"912\" height=\"479\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/stamp-out-hunger-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"intro lead\"><strong>About the NALC&rsquo;s Stamp Out Hunger food drive&hellip;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>First held in 1983, Stamp Out Hunger is the country&rsquo;s largest one-day food drive. In the over 30 years since it began, this food drive has collected nearly two <em>billion<\/em> pounds of food.<\/p>\n<p>It is held annually on the second Saturday of May in thousands of cities and towns in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. If you&rsquo;ve participated before, let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"intro lead\"><strong>Want to keep helping your community? Here are over 30 <a rel=\"\">random acts of kindness to try<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team up with your letter carrier to help Stamp Out Hunger! Donating to this food drive is so easy!&nbsp; Today, May 10th only, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is holding its annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive! All food donations will stay in the local community, going directly to nearby food banks, pantries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafts-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstudios.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}