Canada Post strike delays donations for busy Kingston soup kitchen

A nationwide Canada Post strike is delaying important donations for Martha’s Table, a section crockery room that has served the Kingston, Ont., assemblage for astir 30 years. The postal disruption comes during the charity’s busiest fundraising play of the year, the vacation season.

“We supply prepared meals for anyone successful need; we don’t inquire questions,” said enforcement manager Ronda Candy. “We bash takeout options for radical that similar not to travel inside.”

Martha’s Table relies connected assemblage support, with galore donors sending cheques done the mail. The strike, which involves implicit 50,000 postal workers, has near galore donations stuck successful transit.

“Unfortunately, a batch of our donors message cheques to us,” Candy said, emphasizing the fiscal strain the hold creates for the organization.

Local postal workers from CUPW 556 joined the nationwide effort to advocator for higher wages and amended moving conditions. Speaking astatine a Kingston picket line, CUPW 556 President Tim Ashworth acknowledged the interaction connected businesses and charities.

“Obviously, we cognize this is precise hard for Canadians crossed the country,” Ashworth said. “We privation to service our communities. Let the national authorities cognize however important Canada Post is to you, truthful we tin travel up with a negotiated declaration and get backmost to work.”

In response, Martha’s Table is urging donors to research alternate ways to contribute. Candy suggested respective options: “People tin usage our website marthastable.ca and there’s a button, ‘donate now.’ They tin e-transfer, they tin telephone america and usage Visa oregon Mastercard implicit the phone, oregon they tin driblet by.”

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Despite the challenges, Candy remains committed to ensuring the enactment continues its astir 3 decades of work to Kingston’s astir vulnerable.