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News: --This year (2012) marks the 20th anniversary of feeding the hungry. --The 2012 food drive is scheduled for Saturday, May 12. --Campbell’s is donating 75 million reminder postcards along with 1 million special “Stamp Out Hunger” grocery bags to be distributed in select locations. --International Paper is also donating bags as well as Publix, which will donate bags in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. --AARP is donating over 13.5 million bags to selected states where senior-citizen hunger is a big problem. --AARP will also advertise the food drive through ads in its membership magazine as well as producing hundreds of volunteers to help sort and distribute the donations. --Uncle Bob’s Self-Storage is donating rental trucks to help collect the food donations. --Nick Cannon (singer and “American’s Got Talent” host) will be the drive’s celebrity spokesperson.

Achievements: --The NALC Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive has become the largest one0day food drive in the nation and possibly the world. --The drive has delivered more than one billion pounds of donated food to food banks and pantries over the past 18 years. --The NALC food drive has received two Presidential Certificates of Achievement. --Last year alone (2011) letter carriers collected 70.2 million pounds of food, which raised the total amount of donations over the history of the food drive to more than 1.1 billion pounds. It was the 8th consecutive year of collecting more than 70 millions pounds of food in one day.

Partners/Supporters: --The U.S. Postal Service --Campbell Soup Company --Cox Target Media --Valpak --the National Rural Letter Carriers Association --the Feeding America food bank network --the United Way of America and its local United Ways --the AFL-CIO Community Services network --Uncle Bob’s self storage --AARP