Article: Evening Standard, London, City Spy column.

Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 8--SIR MIKE HODGKINSON and David Mills, chairman and chief executive of Post Office Limited, the Royal Mail's retail arm, have been talking to MPs worried about branch closures. "We have, if you like, the last bastion of nationalisation on our hands here," Mills told them. "We are seeing the last throes of a terminal whale on the beach. We either put it right or it will go the same way as every other nationalised industry; it will cease to exist. Once upon a time, we had 170,000 miners; we have got 6000 now."

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