The bags are sponsored by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 22 and National Electrical Contractors Association of Nebraska.

Postal customers are asked to put nonperishable food items in the bag and place it next to their mailbox on the morning of May 13.

Mail carriers in Branch 5 are hoping to top last year’s record total of 313,390 pounds of food. Donations will be delivered to local food banks and homeless shelters that serve individuals and families in need in the Omaha area.

Thousands of area residents, including children, are considered “food insecure,” meaning they often don’t know where their next meal will come from. Omaha’s “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive will resupply food banks that often have very low supplies by summer, when schools dismiss and many children no longer receive school lunches.

Local members of NALC Branch 5 and Rural National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO, will collect the donated food along their mail routes on May 13 and take them to local post offices, where volunteers from area labor unions and AFL-CIO/United Way of the Midlands Labor Liaisons will place them into large containers for trucks to transport to The Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul Society, the Siena/Francis House and Stephen Center.

Other local partners will include International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 31, IBEW Locals 1483 and 763, OPPD, Reitzway Shipping, Quick Freight and Big Chuck Trucking.

For more information, visit facebook.com/StampOutHunger.