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A nationwide postal strike has been introduced by the Canadian Union of Postal Employees (CUPW). Canada Submit’s operations are actually shut down, affecting tens of millions of Canadians and companies throughout the nation.
Based on Canada Submit, clients will expertise delays as a result of strike exercise, which started on the morning of Friday, Nov. 15, 2024.
“Mail and parcels will not be processed or delivered for the duration of the national strike, and some post offices will be closed. Service guarantees will be impacted for items already in the postal network. No new items will be accepted until the national disruption is over,” Canada Submit acknowledged.
Considering forward, the Metropolis of Kingston issued a launch on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, asking residents to not put funds and different time-sensitive paperwork within the mail. Because of technical points with the Metropolis’s e-mail system, that launch was not obtained by Kingstonist till the night of Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.
Within the launch, the Metropolis supplied the next particulars on how finest to offer needed paperwork and pay bills, fines, parking tickets and so forth. whereas the strike is ongoing:
Pay bills, fines, and parking tickets and extra
You’re nonetheless chargeable for paying bills, fines, and parking tickets on time, and you may pay on-line or in individual at choose areas. Please verify the Ontario Court docket of Justice web site for details about provincial offences and tickets, the municipality stated.
Pay on-line
Residents can go to CityofKingston.ca/Pay for on-line fee choices for parking tickets and permits, provincial offences fines, rubbish bag tags, recreation applications, transit passes, and pet licenses.
Pay in individual
The fee centre can not course of funds for Recreation & Leisure Providers, Planning, Constructing & Licensing Providers, and Housing and Social Providers. The fee centre in Metropolis Corridor, 216 Ontario St., is open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.Pay provincial offences fines at Provincial Offences Court docket at 362 Montreal St. from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.Pay leisure program charges at Metropolis recreation amenities throughout common enterprise hours.Pay planning, constructing, and licensing charges at 1211 John Counter Blvd. from 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday.Make Housing & Social Providers funds at 362 Montreal St. from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
Pay after hours or drop-off
Drop-off and after-hours funds can solely be made by cheque – please don’t use money. You possibly can drop off at:
Metropolis Corridor, 216 Ontario St., by way of the mail slot within the door on the Market Avenue entrance1211 John Counter Blvd. within the 24-hour drop field
Utilities Kingston funds
Drop off cheques to Utilities Kingston at Metropolis Corridor, 216 Ontario St., 1211 John Counter Blvd. or 85 Lappan’s Ln. Register for the MyUtilities Buyer Portal to entry your bills on-line. The Metropolis advises to have your Utilities Kingston account quantity and the quantity of your final fee helpful. For different choices to pay your Utilities Kingston invoice, see UtilitiesKingston.com/Accounts/PaymentOptions.
Housing and Social Providers correspondence
You possibly can convey all correspondence to Housing and Social Providers, together with paperwork for Ontario Works, to 362 Montreal St. throughout common enterprise hours or by utilizing the 24-hour drop field – once more, the Metropolis reminds residents to not place money on this field.Residents of Kingston, South Frontenac, and the Frontenac Islands could decide up social help cheques in individual at 362 Montreal St., with identification.Residents of North and Central Frontenac Townships could decide up cheques in individual on November 29, 2024, on the Sharbot Lake workplace of Rural Frontenac Neighborhood Providers, positioned at 1109 Garrett St. in Sharbot Lake, from 10 a.m. to three p.m. After the scheduled Sharbot Lake workplace pick-up day, cheques could also be picked up at 362 Montreal St.
Planning, constructing and licensing paperwork
The Metropolis of Kingston asks that residents not mail purposes, requests, time-sensitive materials, or Notices of Enchantment for Official Plan Amendments, zone modifications, Draft Plans of Subdivision, or Committee of Adjustment purposes.
Gadgets will be dropped off on the Planning, Constructing & Licensing counter at 1211 John Counter Blvd. between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, or use the 24-hour drop field on the identical location – don’t place money on this field.
DASH (Growth and Providers Hub) Growth Planning, Heritage Planning or Constructing Allow report funds will be processed on-line by way of DASH with credit score or debit card transactions for Growth/Heritage Planning, and with debit card transactions for Constructing Allow data.
Different correspondence
If you’ll want to give a letter or different non-bill correspondence to the Metropolis, drop it off between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday by way of Friday, on the acceptable municipal buyer counter.
For individuals who nonetheless have questions, the Metropolis asks you contact them by cellphone at 613-546-0000 for time-sensitive inquiries, and suggests signing up for e-mail information and notices for updates.
Canada Submit acknowledged that each one mail and parcels within the postal community will probably be secured and delivered as rapidly as doable on a first-in, first-out foundation as soon as the strike motion is over.
“However, a national strike of any length will impact service to Canadians well after the strike activity ends. Shutting down facilities across the country will affect Canada Post’s entire national network. Processing and delivery may take some time to fully return to normal,” the nationwide postal company stated.
Get updates on the strike on the Canada Submit web site.
