The Metropolis of Ottawa is reminding residents that utility bills will nonetheless need to be paid regardless of the continued Canada Submit strike halting mail supply providers throughout the nation.
About 55,000 Canada Submit employees went on strike Friday after failing to achieve a negotiated settlement with their employer. Town says the strike might affect the supply of paper billing, invoices and different notifications – together with water utility bills, property tax bills, invoices and site visitors fines.
“Water utility bills and property tax bills will proceed to be issued and the cost due date will stay unchanged,” town mentioned in a information launch.
“For individuals who obtain their bills by mail, it’s endorsed to join paperless billing.”
Canada Submit mentioned it might proceed working and sustaining service if there are rotating strikes as negotiations proceed. Nonetheless, mail will not be delivered and repair ensures are affected for objects already within the postal community.
All mail and parcels will probably be “secured and delivered” as quick as attainable on a first-in, first-out foundation as soon as operations resume, in response to Canada Submit.
Mail and parcels received’t be processed or delivered and no new objects will probably be accepted till the strike is over, in response to Canada Submit. It mentioned providers to distant and northern areas that closely depend on Canada Submit are shut down.
Some put up places of work are closed. Go to the Canada Submit web site or name forward to seek out out which of them are open.
The Metropolis of Ottawa has a contingency plan in place for residents who require paying bills, fines or invoices:
Basic Accounts Receivable Invoices
Accounts receivable invoices will probably be emailed the place attainable, town says.
Anybody anticipating an invoice from metropolis providers is requested to contact Accounts Receivable.
Social Help Overpayments
Social Help Overpayments might be paid on-line, by way of your monetary establishment, by visiting a Canada Submit location or at 100 Constellation Drive.
Parking tickets and provincial offence fines
Rushing tickets, by-law infractions or different offences might be paid on-line or in particular person or by drop field at a Provincial Offences Court docket workplace.
Parking tickets, together with by-law and traffic-camera infractions, can be paid in-person at any Consumer Service Centre and drop bins, by cellphone at 613-738-7719, or on-line by way of Ottawa.ca/poa.
Collections
Defaulted Provincial Offences Assortment Notices will probably be emailed the place attainable.
All newly defaulted fines will obtain a cellphone name the place attainable and common assortment actions will proceed.
Residents will pay on-line on ottawa.ca, in-person at a Provincial Offences Court docket workplace, over the cellphone at 613-580-2424 extension 21900 or by way of pre-authorized debit.
OC Transpo
Mail supply of Presto Playing cards won’t be obtainable throughout the postal service disruption. Presto playing cards might be bought at ticket machines, the Rideau Centre Buyer Service Centre and taking part Customers Drug Mart, Loblaws and Actual Canadian Superstore areas.
The Rideau Buyer Service Centre will be capable to present the next providers throughout their enterprise hours:
Buyer pickup for Gold and Common Park & Experience Passes
Decide up of EquiPass approval letter and passes (Have to be coordinated with Buyer Service workers prematurely)
Taxi coupons – which have to be bought prematurely by cellphone.
Anybody who requires extra info is requested to contact OC Transpo Buyer Service at 613-560-5000 (TTY: 613-741-5280).
Employment and Social Providers
Employment and Social Providers’ purchasers can entry the hottest info on ottawa.ca.
Growth purposes
Public notices saying new growth purposes will probably be revealed each Saturday in The Ontario Chronicle and Le Droit starting Saturday, Nov. 23. This may proceed in the course of the work stoppage. You’ll be able to all the time evaluation growth purposes on ottawa.ca.
Growth purposes can even be introduced weekly by way of a devoted PSA.
Examine ottawa.ca for any additional contingencies for the postal service disruptions.
Paperless billing
To enroll in paperless billing, create or log in to your MyServiceOttawa account, navigate to view your Water Utility Invoice or Property Tax account and choose paperless as your most well-liked billing technique.
If that is your first time utilizing this service, you will want a replica of your final invoice to finish the registration course of.
As soon as registered, you’re going to get an electronic mail notification when a invoice is prepared for viewing, together with the quantity, due date and a hyperlink to My ServiceOttawa.
With recordsdata from CTV Nationwide Information
