A Behind Scenes Look At The Letter Carrier Food Drive.

Did you leave out a sack of food for you letter carrier a couple of weeks ago?

Letter Carriers tell me that often people say “It's not much” or “I wish I could give more ” when the customers on their route hand them the sack of food. Would you like to see what not much is? Click here.

The numbers are in for Salt Lake City area! Mike Wahlquist, Letter Carrier Union President of the Salt Lake area reports this.

“I’m happy to report that Branch 111 exceeded half a million pounds of food collected during the 2010 Food Drive, with a grand total of 512,160 pounds! That is 18,001 pounds greater than the 494,159 pounds collected in 2009.  On a state level, we collected 1,035,787 pounds of food, which makes this the 6^th year that we have broken the million pound threshold, and we have done it every year since 2005.  I want to thank everyone who participated in this event, and I pass along the thanks from all of the food banks and their patrons who rely so much on these contributions.  This truly is one of the greatest things that we can do for the underprivileged (and undernourished) people in Utah.”

The Utah Food Bank reports that volunteers are still sorting through the food that was brought in from this massive food drive 2 weeks later.

Wow!! That little sack of food really makes a difference! Great job Utah!!! And, thanks to all our wonderful Utah Letter Carriers for this great community effort!

We have some behind the scene pictures to share with you. Click here and see if your letter carrier or mailbox is in one of them.