Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive in 2025

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – Mail carriers will be delivering mail as usual this Saturday but in addition to their job assignments, they will be helping to stamp out hunger in the community. 

National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 63 Vice President George Walsh explains how one day a year, this Saturday, May 10th, letter carriers will be trekking door to door collecting non-perishable food items.

“The Stamp Out Hunger food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers has been in existence since 1993,” Walsh said. “It is a opportunity for us as letter carriers to meet a need in the community. We’ve been doing this locally for decades now. Letter carriers go door to door every single day. We see the needs in the community. And this is a way to meet a simple need.”

Walsh pointed out that most people associate generosity with the holiday season but as schools close for summer break, so do many of the hunger programs that a number of students rely on.

“Starting today, our customers should be receiving either paper bags or plastic bags in their mailbox,” Walsh said. “We’re going to try to put one in every single mailbox. All they have to do is take that bag, walk in, take their non-perishable food items off the shelf. Whatever they can… that they’re able to donate. Fill that bag and sit it by their mailbox and we’ll pick it up and do the rest. All the food that’s collected here locally stays in Muskingum County and goes to meet the needs here in our community.”

Donated items will then be submitted to the Muskingum County Hunger Network to support their 14 local food pantries and four hot meal programs.