On Sun, 14 May 2006 20:03:07 GMT, "Harriet Neal"
> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Just wanted to say thanks to all of you who left bags of food at the mailbox
>yesterday. I work at a food distriution facility in SoCal. We were the
>recipients of the food collected at 10 post offices in the area. We had
>volunteers receiving the food as the mailmen came off the routes, separating
>it into barrels, canned goods, dry goods (cereal, etc) and odd sized going
>into boxes. The projection was 100,000 pounds from the 10 sites. I was at
>a site the collected 11,680 pounds from 75 routes. My agency gives food to
>low-income families in our area, serving 500 families on a weekly basis,
>(average family size 3.5).

I didn't have time to go to the grocery store before the food drive,
so I went through our pantry and gave them all our surplus foods (NOT
expired or stuff that nobody would want to eat btw)... including all
our leftover hurricane supplies from last year - I figure that
somebody else can use them NOW and we'll buy more for ourselves so we
have a fresh stock in case of emergency...
I thought we might have been too late and missed the pickup because
the box sat there all afternoon, but the posty was running very late
and it disappeared at about 5.30, when I was just about to bring it
upstairs again and figure out what to do with it myself!

I was rather sad to see that I was the only person from our building
who left food out... there are 20 families living in our building and
nobody else could spare a few cans?