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Seattle Times13y
Small Washington towns dread possible loss of post offices
The next closest post office is 35 miles away in Dayton. For Jim MacArthur, who owns Lyon’s Ferry Marina outside the town, the closure could have a big impact. Already working 80 hours a week in ...
CBS News3y
With post office closures, small towns feel loss of community: "You're not going to understand what's the big deal unless you've lived it"
It's left some to ponder if the post office even has a place anymore in ... That sense of sadness is a familiar one in small town America. Since the growth of rural home delivery in the early ...
The Daily Dot1y
‘We may as well go back to the pony express days…’
“So if you’re in a small town that has like a population of let’s just say 5,000, 10,000 people, right? You got a small, small, tiny little post office; they’re gonna shut it down.
‘We Did It, Bolinas!!!’ Remote Northern California town gets its post office back
A rural California town lost its post office amid a dispute between USPS and the landlord. After a two-year fight, it's ...