[单项选择]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