A tour of the Israel Post Sorting Center on the issue of renewing passports/photo: Knesset spokespersons
Four long and exhausting months pass for the residents of Shlomi and Kiryat Shmona, who were evacuated from their homes at the beginning of the war to hotels throughout the country.
In addition to the overcrowding in the rooms, the lack of privacy and the ability to lead a normal life, there is also another difficulty - the mail does not reach them.
Not to the abandoned houses, nor to the places we were evacuated to.
Beyond electricity, water and property tax bills, which do not reach their destination and may accrue interest for late payment, critical medical documents, or those related to important bureaucratic processes, are simply not there.
Sami Malol, the former mayor of Kiryat Shmona, turns to Rosh Pina.
"The residents of Kiryat Shmona and Shlomi have not received mail for four months," he said in an interview with 104.5FM Radio North.
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According to Malol, "There is no mail, no mail is distributed, even the 'follow me' service, apparently, does not work. You do not receive license renewals, no medical documents, you are cut off. They are not prepared. I asked what is going on with this, I even referred the matter To the Minister of Communications. If you knew what stupid answers I get.
"I have a paid mailbox.
I pay once a year for these mailboxes, but there is no division in them either.
And funnier, they demand payment for renewing the mailbox.
Service 171, follow me, not functioning.
You pass on the details, I'm staying in a hotel in Rosh Pina, and nothing.
"From time to time, when I arrive in the city, there is a clerk on duty at the Kiryat Shmona post office, who takes a letter out of the piles and gives it to me on an informal basis. This is simply a scandal. On the other hand, in the kibbutzim, they found independent solutions. Their mail is collected centrally, a representative from the settlement arrives and distributes it to them."
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The Israel Post explains that the Home Front Command does not allow the distribution of mail in Kiryat Shmona, but only the operation of a secured branch, which provides services of the Post Bank and postal services, with the exception of the distribution of letters.
The evacuees, as they say there, receive the "Follow me" service free of charge and the Ministry of Communications established the "Together" interface where the evacuees can update their temporary address, and it is transmitted directly to all the major postmen, insurance companies, media, banks, etc.
As for the paid mailboxes, it was stated in response, "We are currently looking at a fair solution for the residents who were evacuated from their homes and cannot receive the service of receiving mail to their personal mailboxes. Payment for these mailboxes is made in advance for a period of one year. We have frozen the collection for mailbox rental renewals." .
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