The United States Postal Service Could Be the Answer to Food Insecurity — Food News

February 15, 2017

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How’s this for smart? A team of students from Washington University in St. Louis has come up with a plan to tackle food insecurity by turning underused U.S. post offices into food distribution centers.

Called, “First Class Meal,” the proposal won the annual Urban SOS: Fair Share Student Competition last month. The team, made up of graduate students Anu Samarajiva, Irum Javed, Lanxi Zhang, and faculty advisor Linda Samuels, presented a simple idea: Repurpose post offices already scheduled to fold and harness the power of postal system infrastructure to collect and distribute food in food deserts.

“We kind of had this realization that the post office still touches us all,” Samarajiva told Smithsonian magazine. “It has this incredible network and connection to all of us as citizens, but it’s just what is it delivering now, how is it connecting us now?”

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