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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYo! Tomorrow is the food drive by letter carriers. Do it with me
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,724 posts)local food shelf directly; they can do a lot more with it than the average consumer.
Ocelot II
(116,594 posts)irisblue
(33,149 posts)I do put out water in my mailbox during hot season
Ocelot II
(116,594 posts)I live in the city and the carriers have a lot of houses to visit as it is.
irisblue
(33,149 posts)littlemissmartypants
(23,215 posts)Fla Dem
(24,274 posts)Got a reminder postcard in my mailbox Wednesday, so I assume my 3 bags will be picked up. If not they'll go to the local food pantry where i used to volunteer.
brooklynite
(95,585 posts)They're not going to carry food along with their mail deliveries.
Ocelot II
(116,594 posts)so I'm not doing it any more. They do have trucks, but they park them and then walk their routes, which seem to be many blocks. There's no way that if a bag of food was offered at each house, they could carry all that stuff back to their trucks.
oasis
(49,976 posts)oasis
(49,976 posts)carrier pick up the donated goods from carriers as they continue on their routes to lighten their load.
Ocelot II
(116,594 posts)I've set out stuff three years in a row and it was never picked up.
oasis
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