In the UK they have different priorities of mail (1st class, 2nd class 3rd class) so the post office understands the customer's preferred priority.

I must be living off the grid. I haven't posted a letter in 20 years. I get and pay all my bills online.

I don't even look in my mailbox more than once a month, and it's either junk Flyers or mail to the wrong address.

I get mail for a previous house owner who hasn't lived here in 30 years and is very likely dead.

That doesn’t seem like an issue. If you require an expedited delivery of mail, then you’d need to pay for it from my understanding. I’d imagine its not much different from overnighting a package

Lots of companies also fail by sticking with tried and true methods and refuse to change in changing times.

Not entirely sure the type of dwelling you're referring to, but a highrise or townhouse complexes already has a system in place as self managed community mailboxes.

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/kb/receiving/community-mailboxes/lost-community-mailbox-key.page

Canada Post does not maintain locks and keys for condo, strata, apartment or business mailboxes. Contact your building manager or superintendent for keys.

I don't know what a rooming house is but it's 1 box per unit/address. The keys can just be copied so if a bunch of people share 1 box you can just each have your own copy.

Can we be totally honest and admit the only reason we still have door delivery is to protect the jobs of mail carriers?

Surely we'll make the country better when we make those people get minimum wage jobs at Tim Horton's in the name of making government services into profit centres.

It's hard for the rural areas. I see it both ways. I've got a community mailbox about a block away, takes all of a minute to reach and get back. I'm for it generally, but they do get busted into a lot closer to Christmas though. Grand scheme of things though, functional system.

Where I grew up, you'd go to the end of the lane to get your mail, and a community box is probably going to mean a 10 minute drive down the concession and back. It's not a big deal when the weather's good, but when it's bad and the lanes not blown out, or for the elderly, it's a bigger deal.

But facing all the facts, it's probably the compromise we all need to make. I dont even get much actual mail anymore, I only go to empty it every week and a half, and only because it's so full of flyers and junk that you can't fit anything more in it, just in case something I'm interested in was to come, that would be a problem. This isn't going to be a popular thought maybe, but it's been a bit of a godsend this past little while without the flyer and junk deliveries, it's been nice seeing an empty box. We don't need junk mail, but that's been a pretty big revenue line for Canada Post, so it's kind of a reckoning moment there too.

That’s totally false that the community mailbox moratorium is just to protect the jobs of mail carriers.

Community mailboxes were a hot topic issue in the lead up to the 2015 Federal election with residents of the proposed conversions complaining about how difficult it will be to take more than one step out the door to get their mail.

With the Liberals promising a stop to the conversions, Canada Post paused the plans after they won the election

https://globalnews.ca/news/2300376/a-timeline-of-canada-posts-contentious-community-mailboxes/

Would it be the same people delivering but just to a big box instead?

That's what confused me I mean I just assumed everywhere outside of a major city already had these. Hell when I was a kid in the 80s/90s in Cambridge, Ontario we never got mail delivered to the house, it was all via the community mailboxes.