{"id":55318,"date":"2017-07-12T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-impressive-national-results-for-letter-carriers-annual-food-drive\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T19:38:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T23:38:03","slug":"impresionantes-resultados-nacionales-para-la-campana-anual-de-donacion-de-alimentos-de-los-carteros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/impresionantes-resultados-nacionales-para-la-campana-anual-de-donacion-de-alimentos-de-los-carteros\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive National Results for Letter Carriers&#8217; Annual Food Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 12, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The 25<sup>th<\/sup> annual food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), held on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Saturday, May 13<\/span>, collected 75 million pounds, the third-highest total in the event&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg773bleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg773bleft\" title=\"National Association of Letter Carriers\" border=\"0\" alt=\"National Association of Letter Carriers\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/353615\/national_association_of_letter_carriers_logo.jpg \"\/><\/div>\n<p>Combined with last year&#8217;s record of 80.1 million pounds, that makes a two-year total of 155 million pounds \u2013 the highest back-to-back total in the drive&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to be able to help people in need by leading an effort that brings out the best in so many Americans,&#8221; NALC President <span class=\"xn-person\">Fredric Rolando<\/span> said.<\/p>\n<p>Hunger affects about 50 million people around the country, including millions of children, senior citizens and veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The Stamp Out Hunger<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Food Drive is the country&#8217;s largest single-day food drive. It is held annually on the second Saturday in May in 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states, the <span class=\"xn-location\">District of Columbia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, the <span class=\"xn-location\">Virgin Islands<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Guam<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Customers leave their donation of non-perishable goods in paper bags next to their mailbox before the delivery of the mail that day. The nation&#8217;s 175,000 letter carriers collect the food donations left and distribute them to local food agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The timing is important, with food banks, pantries and shelters running low on donations from the winter-holidays and with summer looming, when most school meal programs are suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Several national partners assisted the NALC in this year&#8217;s food drive: the U.S. Postal Service, United Food &amp; Commercial Workers International Union, National Rural Letter Carriers&#8217; Association, United Way Worldwide, AARP Foundation, AFL-CIO, Valpak and Valassis.<\/p>\n<p>In the quarter-century since it began, the annual food drive has collected almost 1.6 billion pounds of food.<\/p>\n<p>********<\/p>\n<p>The 280,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers represents letter carriers across the country employed by the U.S. Postal Service, along with retired letter carriers. Founded by Civil War veterans in 1889, the NALC is among the country&#8217;s oldest labor unions.<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/353615\/national_association_of_letter_carriers_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/353615\/national_association_of_letter_carriers_logo.jpg<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  National Association of Letter Carriers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 12, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The 25<sup>th<\/sup> annual food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), held on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Saturday, May 13<\/span>, collected 75 million pounds, the third-highest total in the event&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg773bleft\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg773bleft&quot; title=&quot;National Association of Letter Carriers&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;National Association of Letter Carriers&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}