Local letter carriers will drop off bags in advance at households, urging residents to fill them with nonperishable food for pickup on Saturday.

It’s all part of the 21st annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive.

Carriers will collect the bags along their routes while delivering the mail.

Volunteers are needed at the Auburn Post Office (behind the building) to help unload the mail trucks as it comes in from 1-5 p.m.

Community members are joining postal carriers in the nation’s largest single-day food drive, benefiting Food Lifeline’s efforts to stock area food banks and to feed hungry people throughout King County.

Carriers throughout King County are participating.

Letter Carriers in King County last year raised more than 526,000 pounds of nonperishable food, enough to provide more than 438,500 meals.

To learn more, visit www.foodlifeline.org/stamp.