If you want to mail in a property tax or utility payment in Kitchener, you’ll soon have to provide your own envelope.

The City of Kitchener plans to stop including return envelopes with tax and Kitchener utilities bills mailed to customers as of Feb. 1 next year.

The city sends out an estimated 78,000 return envelopes each year to customers who don’t use e-billing or pay through their bank.

Most of those envelopes come with monthly utility bills; about 6,400 envelopes are sent out with property tax bills.

Chief financial officer Jonathan Lautenbach said usage is tracked, and return envelopes aren’t included with a paper bill if the customer isn’t sending in payments by mail.

“They are envelopes that are being used,” he said during a committee meeting this week.

Scrapping the return e

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