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Each dot is a hard loss

Reuters interactive map of post office closures. Many of them meet the criterion outlined by the USPS, “low earned workload and no greater than $27,500 in total annual revenue.”

At least one living-wage job will be lost due to each closure. And for some of these rural villages and hamlets, the post office is one of the few businesses remaining. The fear over these closures is simple: losing that little building will mean the end of the town. Over time, the things we built will crumble. Signs will fade, fall or otherwise disappear. Then, the place we called home won’t even be a dot on the map.

And no one will know we lived here, raised families and made a few sweet memories.