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When I read the news last week that the U.S. Postal Service plans to close or consolidate as many as 2,000 branches in the next two years, my heart (62) a little. There’s something wistfully beautiful about the idea of the doors staying open at some remote post office (63) main customer is a bearded old codger with an EBay habit. But even as postal delivery (64) , you have to (65) that the soul of the whole enterprise---the sweet ache of (66) -- was lost long ago.
More often than not, I find myself taking the mail from the box and depositing it (67) into the trash--"mail" apparently also being a euphemism (委婉说法) for fliers (68) carpet cleaning companies. This (69) me just a little bit each day (70) , like many people who work from home, I revel(着迷)in any (71) , and retrieving the mail still seems like a (72) reason to rise from my desk. When I lived in an apartment in New York City, it was not (73) for me to sprint down many (74) of stairs three times a day to check if the postman had filled the boxes in the lobby. E-mail offers no (75) pleasures, (76) can it do that magical thing that real mail can do. (77) you intimately and tactically of who you are.
Yes, there are other (78) Objectively speaking, a child now could spend five minutes on her parents’ Facebook pages and glean (搜集)10 years’ worth of annual-newsletter clues; she could chat in real time with her brother; and Twitter has "witty riposte (机敏的回答)" texted all over it.
(79) as the Postal Service continues its slow fade into history, something will be missing. (80) written communication--indeed, it’s only multiplying--but the small comforts that come from waiting for it, handling it and smiling whenever you pass the table you’ve placed it on. For that, nothing (81) the U. S. mail.

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