Letter and mail carriers from the Albany Post Office will hopefully be picking up more items than they deliver this Saturday when they will once again be involved in the annual Stamp Our Hunger Food Drive.

This year’s drive, Saturday, May 9, is the nation’s largest one-day food drive.

The Postal Service encourages customers to place a sturdy bag containing non-perishable food next to their mailboses prior to regular mail delivery this Saturday.

Letter carriers will collect the food while working their regular routes Saturday. The food that is collected will be donated to local Albany and Clinton County, food banks.

“For more than two decades, the National Association of Letter Carriers and the Postal Service, have worked together to stamp out hunger in America. This year, we’ll come together once again to help feed families in need,” said Postmaster General Megan Brennan.

It is estimated that approximately 49 million people face hunger every day in the United States, including almost 16 million children. Stamp Out Hunger has collected more than one billion pounds of food nationally since the annual drive began in 1993.