It's okay. I do.
The front yards in bloom program is a partnership with the City of Edmonton, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, and the Edmonton Horticultural Society. We do a program every year where the letter carriers nominate yards that they walk in and that are in their communities for awards because of their front yards and beautifying the city of Edmonton. It's a very strong connection we have, it's a very important program, and it's very popular with our letter carriers and very popular in the community. That's an example of a partnership that exists that is a very positive thing.
I want to speak on the community mailboxes. I'm in a mature neighbourhood. We have door-to-door delivery. I would like to see that continue. I have talked to many others, and everyone would like to see it continue. My daughter is in university. She uses the Internet a lot. You were talking about the digital age. She has a completely different view of things. She and her classmates check online to see what they can find as far as delivery service for things that they order online, and they do this a lot. They compare the websites between the different companies that offer that delivery. They think that Canada Post is not up to snuff when it comes to that. It's not an easy-to-use website. They can't get straightforward information about the rates. They'd like to use Canada Post, and they'd like to see it improved.
One of her friends lived at home in a community—and has moved closer to the university now—where they had mailboxes they had to go to. He's just thrilled with his letter carrier delivery now that he's in a delivery area, which is around the university.
I think that the public service of Canada Post is the door-to-door delivery. There are connections throughout Canada. I have a cottage in a rural community. I'm originally from Nova Scotia, so we have a place there. Going there this summer, we found the mail is delivered to the end of the driveway, but there is only one bank in town. There's a small post office in each of the communities, and it is really a hub for the community to go in there and exchange information.
I think it's very important that you consider the options that have been put forward. I've presented a couple of documents here today, which I'm sure you've already seen, about public service, the rural communities, and expanding the services. There are some excellent ideas in these documents about doing that. Some of them, Mike Nickel has already touched on. There are some excellent ideas, and I would encourage you to look at all of those and at expanding the service.
I don't know how much time I have left.