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USPS Stamp Out Hunger Saturday May 11

Greeneyedlady21 — Wed, 08 May 2019 10:00:48 GMT

You can donate non perishable food items this Saturday at your mailbox or post office. I received my reminder card yesterday.

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Snoopp — Wed, 08 May 2019 10:25:16 GMT

I got my card yesterday. I'm sure I'll find some pantry items to donate.

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meallen616 — Wed, 08 May 2019 11:29:39 GMT

@Greeneyedlady21,

I also got my card yesterday and I always donate. Thanks for posting for everyone,

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Eileen in Virginia — Wed, 08 May 2019 13:24:45 GMT

@Greeneyedlady21 Thanks for your post! We received a blue grocery bag with our mail yesterday, but no info on the collection date. I’ll look for a postcard and check our pantry for items to donate.

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Lucky Charm — Wed, 08 May 2019 13:27:27 GMT

DH and I picked up many canned goods at the grocery store yesterday for Saturday's pickup.

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orphan annie325 — Wed, 08 May 2019 14:32:10 GMT

For the last two years, I've left a bag on my porch but was not picked up. It was setting on the recycling container under my mailbox and I'm wondering if I need to take it to a mailbox on the corner two blocks away for pickup?

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nomless — Wed, 08 May 2019 14:47:08 GMT

@orphan annie325 wrote:
For the last two years, I've left a bag on my porch but was not picked up. It was setting on the recycling container under my mailbox and I'm wondering if I need to take it to a mailbox on the corner two blocks away for pickup?

I don't know where they want you to put the bag. Why not call and ask them where the bag should be placed?

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Lucky Charm — Wed, 08 May 2019 14:49:36 GMT

@nomless wrote:
@orphan annie325 wrote:
For the last two years, I've left a bag on my porch but was not picked up. It was setting on the recycling container under my mailbox and I'm wondering if I need to take it to a mailbox on the corner two blocks away for pickup?

Our mail carrier walks house to house to deliver, but parks at the very beginning of the street.

Everybody (pretty much everybody) carried their bags and others' to his truck. It was too much for him to lug around along with his mailbag. There's about 20 houses on our street alone.

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gidgetgh — Wed, 08 May 2019 17:19:11 GMT

Thanks so much for the reminder! It completely slipped my mind this year and we haven’t gotten a reminder card yet.

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IamMrsG — Wed, 08 May 2019 21:46:13 GMT

@nomless wrote:
@orphan annie325 wrote:
For the last two years, I've left a bag on my porch but was not picked up. It was setting on the recycling container under my mailbox and I'm wondering if I need to take it to a mailbox on the corner two blocks away for pickup?

I don't know where they want you to put the bag. Why not call and ask them where the bag should be placed?

The card I received today says, "...place by your mailbox for your letter carrier to pick up..."

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RedTop — Wed, 08 May 2019 23:47:14 GMT

I am shocked this yearly event has not even been mentioned locally! Not in the printed paper or online version, no TV announcement, and no postal reminders!

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proudlyfromNJ — Thu, 09 May 2019 00:15:55 GMT

I got my reminder yesterday.

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Cakers3 — Thu, 09 May 2019 03:39:35 GMT

No USPS reminders for us, either. We don't participate anyway; we buy extra when we shop and leave in the bin at the front of the store designated for our local food bank.

It's a good program, though, for people who cannot get to their local food banks easily or do not have donation bins at their grocery stores.

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sunshine45 — Thu, 09 May 2019 04:11:41 GMT

we received a blue plastic bag in our mailbox today.

it is for usps and sponsored by a local grocery store.

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suzyQ3 — Thu, 09 May 2019 18:01:47 GMT

We received the card yesterday and have a packed bag ready to put out on Saturday.

A reminder: Do check the expiration dates. I found one product that had only a few days left on its "best used by date." I dumped it.

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cherry — Thu, 09 May 2019 18:18:13 GMT

My husband packed up our bag yesterday. I am proud of our Post Office for doing this good deed

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Jordan2 — Thu, 09 May 2019 18:45:48 GMT

@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:
You can donate non perishable food items this Saturday at your mailbox or post office. I received my reminder card yesterday.

Thank you for this info. My post office is awful, I didn't know this. I am the only one on my block that donates food.

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speedy girl — Fri, 10 May 2019 05:26:36 GMT

I like to contribute to this every year, it's just a small thing I can do to help. But be sure to get yours out to the mailbox early as I have seen people on my street put it out after the mail has already arrived!

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clista — Fri, 10 May 2019 06:25:36 GMT

If you put it on the recycling container, it would appear that it is garbage. Put it on the floor under the mail box.

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gidgetgh — Fri, 10 May 2019 15:13:16 GMT

This is the first year I can remember where we didn’t receive a bag or reminder postcard.

Our regular mail carrier doesn’t work on Saturdays and it is alway an “all bets are off” thing for our Saturday delivery.

We bought our donation food this morning and I’ll take it up to the post office tomorrow morning. They always put out a large bin. We’re supposed to have heavy rain tomorrow and our post office is one mile away so it’s no problem for me to take it up there.