Community Chat

[ValuSkr]

Is that why the mail is so late today? 

[Suziepeach]

PS, the last time we bothered to donate (which was the last time) no volunteers ever showed up to pick them up.. at all.  This time no notification or plastic bag, at all.  

We make our donation to our local food pantry anyway...  that check & trunk load of food products can go a long way to feed hungry families.  

[151949]

My hubby just got home and said the mailman stopped him and gave him a bunch of stuff he had found as he delivered the mail. So DH saved him a trip to the pantry to deliver it. And while he was gone one of our neighbors stopped by with a bag she had missed the pick up because she slept in, so we will take it tomorrow when we go to church.

[Marp]

For a couple of years our local post office did not participate but under the new postmistress cards went out this year.  A little too early IMO.  They should have been distributed earlier this week instead of early last week.

In any event my very dear mail carrier left me a thank you note and said my bag was the only one she had so far (we are near the end of the route).

I wonder if people are unaware that even though it is a national drive all the food collected stays in the community.  Maybe that should emphasized for next year.

[lulu2]

I (mistakenly) put ours out LAST Saturday.  I did see a mail truck stop and take it.  We have not received a card about the upcoming date in a few years. 

[151949]

@Marp So true. All the volunteers in our town have been found by and organized by the director of the local food bank.  Nothing at all was sent out by our post office here. In the past there was a bag left in the mailbox. However, asd I previously said , some of the malimen did pickup some stuff for us, because the people leave it inside those rural mailboxes and only the mailmen can open them.

[MalteseMomma]

ooooooooooooh I forgot to  put it out.I have it bagged a ready to go  and it is so crazy here today ,I didn't put it out    I feel awful     omg.

I wish I had seen this post earlier.............

[gidgetgh]

We took a few bags to our post office yesterday and put a few more in our mailbox this morning. Our mail doesn't come till about 5 so the carrier should take them then. 

[chickenbutt]

I think it's sad that there seems to be breakdowns in the way this is handled from one location to another.

Last time I tried this the food sat out in the hot sun (this time of year, that part of my house gets full sun all afternoon!) for the whole day and was not picked up.   I was not happy about that.  

I purchased lots of nice things to donate because I don't believe trying to help somebody means just giving them all my old food.    So I felt like I had 'helped' but as it turned out I didn't help anybody.

That was a number of years ago so I don't remember what I did from that point but, IIRC, my husband took the bags of food somewhere for me, to donate.

[missy1]

They do it here. I don't think I got a flyer etc