In areas where there are community mailboxes, letter carriers nevertheless come very close to people's homes. What you are asking me is whether community mailboxes are a good option. I would say that depends on the circumstances.
In the suburbs, where, in any case, everyone has a car and there is space for a community mailbox, they can work very well. In a large city such as Montreal, there are considerations of space, traffic, and access, for example. Someone nevertheless approaches your house, particularly in the case of a special request. The case of parcels is a good example of this because community mailboxes are indeed not all built to accommodate parcels, a fact that poses a number of problems. It is possible for a letter carrier go to a person's home because, in any case, he is in the area. It seems to me this is something that might be a good idea to exploit, from a public service standpoint. We should not view this as simply having a postal organization, but rather look at it from the standpoint of the government and legislators. We have to ask ourselves what we are doing with our asset and how to maximize its cost-effectiveness and profitability.