My name is Bernice Perkins. I'm the vice-chair of the Wakamow Aboriginal Community Organization. I welcome you to Treaty 4.
I'm here to disagree with the door-to-door service. We have a mailbox and, like the gentleman was saying, we can't get parcels delivered there. If we order materials for our organization, we have to use one of our home addresses in order to receive those goods.
I disagree with the boxes because of the access. My husband is disabled, and in the winter for him to go half a block, if it's slippery and there's snow in the way, he needs to drive. Moose Jaw is not the greatest for clearing our streets, so we're probably going to have snowbanks that make them inaccessible.
As to the security of the mailboxes, when they were first put up I had a number of different people tell me that the keys for their specific box would open other boxes. I haven't checked my key. I always forget about it, but that was a pretty big concern for me, whether someone was able to access my box. Then there is the vandalism of them. If someone could get into them, they would have access to everybody's stuff in that one mailbox, or maybe if they do all three or whatever.
Those are my concerns with the mailbox system that we have now. I much prefer door-to-door service.
Thank you.