Letter Carriers’ Food Drive

Saturday, May 11th marked the 32nd annual Letter Carriers Food Drive, the largest single-day food drive in Humboldt County. The National Association of Letter Carriers hosts an annual nationwide food drive to “Stamp Out Hunger” in partnership with local pantries and food banks. This year, our generous community and hardworking Letter Carriers joined forces to collect 20,695 pounds of food in Eureka, plus more at other sites across the county.

The timing of the Letter Carriers’ Food Drive is critical for many reasons. By this point in the year, pantry sites have distributed all of the donations collected during holiday food drives. Summer break begins soon which means school meal access is reduced or unavailable, stretching low income families’ budgets. Overall, the number of people needing food assistance has grown as our community faces higher costs for food, fuel, housing, and energy.

Thank you for taking part in Stamp Out Hunger! If you didn’t get your blue bag out on May 11th, Food for People takes donations Mon-Fri from 9am-4pm in the donation bin accessed via the alley behind our facility at 307 W. 14th Street in Eureka. Pantries across the county also accept donations - a list can be found here. Cash donations go even further! Give online here.

Thank you to the sponsors of this year’s donation bags: Coast Central Credit Union, Ming Tree Realtors, Ray’s Food Place, and LPL Financial. We also want to thank Murphy’s Market Cutten, John’s Cigars, and Country Club Market for hosting  remote drop sites for Letter Carriers. We would also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Los Bagels, Frankies Bagels for donating food to feed our hardworking volunteers, letter carriers, and staff. Thank you to the Eureka Mall, Rainbow Mini Storage, Ming Tree Realtors, Redwood News, Mad River Radio, KMUD, Eureka Broadcasting, and KHUM for their help in promoting the event. Finally, thanks to National Association of Letter Carriers members, rural carriers, other postal employees, and numerous volunteers for making this food drive possible.