Hey everyone, want to fight hunger?
If you said, yes, then bless you.
But please, please, please, remember that there are better ways to exercise your desire to relieve the suffering of others than to leave food out at your mailbox tomorrow. One of those better ways is to take the food yourself to a service organization of your choice, which is what the USPS is going to do with it anyway.
Sure, as a substitute mail carrier I should probably be promoting Stamp Out Hunger day, the postal service’s annual food drive. And I would, too, if it was a good idea, which it isn’t.
It is one of the worst days of the year for your carrier. It promises to be especially bad here in the northeast as rain is in the forecast for today and tomorrow, and people generally do not think about the consequences of putting twenty cans of food in a paper bag and resting that bag in the rain on the already soggy ground around their mailbox, with a couple of cardboard boxes of macaroni and cheese on top, of course.
I’ll be on Route 7 tomorrow. Hopefully the weather will discourage people from being generous.
