It would be my pleasure. Thank you very much.
Indeed, as everybody knows, the reason why Canada Post approached us with changing some aspects of their operation was that, fundamentally, they've been delivering 1.2 billion fewer letters than they did in 2006. Indeed, according to our most-up-to-date information, I've been told that we saw another 6% decline in letter mail last year.
As a result, Canada Post has had to take some decisions with respect to how they operate. One of them has to do with the provision and delivery of door-to-door mail and converting to community mailboxes the rest of the households in Canada that currently do not have to go to a community mailbox. They are consulting with communities across the country, it's my understanding, with respect to both the siting of the community mailboxes and how to undertake and ensure that communities are aware of what's going on, for the conversion to go as smoothly as possible.
Canada Post so far is on the right track. They have increased as well in terms of the number of parcels they delivered last year. That said, they still are seeing that incredible gap in revenue as a result of people simply using email as opposed to using letter mail anymore. We continue to monitor it. It is a significant plan that they've put forward. They do need to ensure that they save money, because they have an obligation to operate on a self-sustaining basis under their own legislation. This is the way they said they would get there. We support their five-point plan and we want to make sure the implementation is as easy as possible on the communities.
If I may, I could add one last thing on a topic that Mr. McGuinty had asked me earlier about regarding whether or not I'd be willing to provide information to the committee.
I have had the opportunity to confer with my officials in this last 15 minutes, and we'd be happy to provide the information to the committee, Mr. McGuinty.