Time to spring clean your kitchen pantry and help feed the hungry with the U.S. Postal Service’s annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

Letter carriers across the state, and country, will be picking up bags of canned food and other nonperishable grocery items Saturday for area food banks.

Bags of needed food can be dropped off at the Clatsop County Food Bank, 2010 Chokeberry Ave. in Warrenton, between 8 a.m. and noon Monday through Friday.

This is the 24th year that the National Association of Letter Carriers workers have added an extra effort to their usual Saturday mail delivery in order to help collect food to fill shelves at local food pantries.

Most county residents should have received a postcard earlier this week announcing the food drive. They also should receive a grocery bag, which they can fill with nonperishable food — such as canned meats, soup, juice, vegetables, pasta, cereal, peanut butter, and rice. Don’t include items that have expired or that are in glass containers. The bags should be left next to the resident’s mailbox Saturday morning.

Anyone who didn’t receive a grocery bag can fill any other bag or box. Donations also will be accepted in receptacles at post offices.