I am impressed at how quickly the U.S. Postmaster General's office initiated a response to my email about a possible special food donation parcel rate. I received a call today, just a few days after my correspondence from an office in Alabama where I am located. I explained my idea and was informed my inquiry would be directed to a department that more directly handles such inquiries and that I will receive another call on Monday.

Imagine if you could put together a small non-perishable food package and send it by U.S. mail, UPS or FedEx directly to a family who needs it? This is the idea I have had for several years, and understand the difficulties of implementing such a program. Also, I am not advising this method as a replacement for donations to the many good organizations who help feed the hungry in the world, but as a supplement to their efforts. Despite the hard work of organizations and companies and donations from many caring people, world hunger is still at an unacceptable level. I hope you will come back here in the near future for updates on my progress in starting Hambre.org food donation program.

I have owned Hambre.org for many years and have thought about how the domain might be used to address feeding the hungry - in a new way though. I hope to share this idea soon and implement a beta form of the idea.