{"id":186920,"date":"2026-05-08T06:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186920\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:09:09","slug":"stamp-out-hunger-during-saturday-food-drive-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186920\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Stamp Out Hunger’ during Saturday food drive | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postal service letter carriers are hoping you\u2019ll help them deliver big for the Helping Harvest Food Bank.<\/p>\n

Saturday is the annual \u201cStamp Out Hunger\u201d food drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Letter carriers will collect non-perishable food items along their routes in Berks and Schuylkill counties and deliver the food to Helping Harvest.<\/p>\n

To take part, just leave donated items in a bag near your mailbox on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Organizers say it\u2019s the nation\u2019s largest single-day food drive.<\/p>\n

According to Helping Harvest, the National Association of Letter Carriers brought more than 90,000 pounds of food through its doors from last year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postal service letter carriers are hoping you\u2019ll help them deliver big for the Helping Harvest Food Bank. Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,2343,64632,4493,4498,128,130,129,231,83169],"class_list":["post-186920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-food-drive","tag-helping-harvest-food-bank","tag-letter-carriers","tag-national-association-of-letter-carriers","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-stamp-out-hunger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}