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On May 8, city and rural carriers collected food donations as they delivered mail on their routes in the annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Other employees helped process and deliver nonperishable food to pantries across the nation. More than 130 million postcards were mailed to publicize the event — the world’s largest annual one-day food drive. Despite the tough economy, Americans boosted their donations to a record 77.1 million pounds, increasing the 18-year total to more than one 1 billion pounds. Other supporters of the drive include Campbell Soup Company, Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, Valassis, Feeding America (formerly known as America’s Second Harvest), the United Way of America and local affiliates, the AFL-CIO, and cartoonist Bill Keane, who provides special Family Circus artwork for the promotion.
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