Postal carriers did more than deliver mail this weekend.

They picked up 23 thousand pounds of food.

It's part of national Letter Carrier's DAY

Donations were dropped off at the Second Harvest Food Bank, where workers spent hours unloading.

NBC 38’S Julie Bercik has more.

Djuanna and Youwonna are shopping for the grand opening of their food bank, Rescue.

"We're doing some shopping for the ministry, we're getting ready to open a food bank for the community in our area. So we're shopping, getting things prepared so we can serve and feed the community,” said Dr. Youwonna Safford.

Today, Second Harvest Food Bank has more to offer to organization like rescue thanks to the letter carrier's food drive.

"So far what we've been able to weigh, we have 23 thousand pounds, and some of the carriers had two or three trips because of the food,” said Babbs Douglas, Executive Director.

Second Harvest says that number could possibly double.

"We're going to have to pick up about twenty more bins, so I anticipate 30 to 40 thousand pounds of food. That's a tractor trailer load actually,” said Douglas.

These crates stretch down the entire isle, holding this weekend's donations, donations that come at a time where people in the valley are struggling to make ends meet.

"We have a bout 400 elderly low income and needy families that we give a bag of groceries to every month,” said Betty Ellis, Buena Vista, Ga.

Betty says the letter carrier's food drive, is big help, without it, her church couldn't give out as much.

"It would make it tremendously harder because we get several thousand pounds of canned goods from the postal service,” said Ellis.

"We had the opportunity to go through the items that were just donated in this weekend, and they have some really great stuff,” said Saffold.

Thanks to the generosity of the Valley families don't have to worry about where the next meal comes from.