Saturday was Stamp Out Hunger 2012! I have been posting on Facebook and tweeting about it. (Yes, I tweet. I’m not very good at it, though. I get confused about whether I should use a # or a @ and I am unsure of proper Twitter etiquette. But you can follow me @cincodemommy if you want!)
We arrived at a post office in north Raleigh, got our Stamp Out Hunger tshirts and waited for the donated food to arrive:
Mineral and Animal wait for the mail trucks in their Stamp Out Hunger tshirts.
Trucks arrived, bearing non-perishable food in brown paper bags. If the bags were torn, or the cans weren’t in bags, the letter carriers put them in those plastic USPS boxes
Food, ready to get put in bags and then placed in boxes.
We received a lot of canned goods — mostly soup and beans and meat — and chips, as well as condiments and veggies. Lots of boxes of dessert mix.
However, I was really cheered to see baby food, as hunger affects babies too!
Jars of baby food.
I found a note in one paper bag
No, thank YOU for donating!
We collected so much food at our post office, the site coordinator had to go back for more pallets and boxes!
Bringing more pallets and boxes.
Overall we filled 16 huge boxes — just at one post office! Stamp Out Hunger is a national food drive, so I can not even imagine how much food was collected overall!
Putting bags into a box. The boxes were huge!
I am so proud to have been a part of Stamp Out Hunger 2012!
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