[Dan Nunn]

The news is crushing in many remote communities where the post office is often the heart of the town and the closest link to the rest of the country.

Wow, what a tear-jerker from the WSJ. Where is this theoretical remote community? Barrows, Alaska?

[GeronL]

remote communities? How about shutting down some big union city post offices that already have too many?

[ASOC]

Odd you should ask

http://www.city-data.com/city/Alaska3.html has a list of small villages that without mail service could - maybe not starve - but become unlivable.

Not everyone has a Rite-Aid or Safeway on the corner.....

[handmade]

What about the small towns in rural Amerca? We have any number of those in the midwest-far from Alaska. My town of just under 6000 is the biggest one in several countries as you go north, west and south of me.

I would like to know what to do about those?

Cutting back on vacation hours, or at least combining into a central area those in small towns seems better than wiping them out.