With emergency food-assistance benefits ending, more San Diegans are going hungry, officials say. People can help by leaving non-perishable food by their mailboxes for postal workers to pick up on their rounds.
Traveling from mailbox to mailbox across San Diego, thousands of mail carriers will be collecting bags of food Saturday as part of an annual food drive to help local food banks.
Later that day, approximately 2,600 letter carriers with the U.S. Postal Service will do double duty as they deliver mail while picking up food donations across the San Diego region, from Encinitas to San Ysidro to Lakeside. “Most of them are considered the ‘working poor,’ so these are individuals and families that have jobs — maybe one or two jobs — and are still struggling to get by,” Castillo explained, “as well as seniors living on a fixed income.”
This — coupled with record-high inflation levels and rising food costs — has resulted in tremendous financial strain on thousands of San Diego families in need and made food donations more critical than ever, Castillo said.
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