Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt said: "The fact is, there are too many underused post offices" (August 16).
That's what Beeching said about railway stations, Heseltine about coalmines, Matthewson about school kitchens, Bunker about school playing fields and Thatcher about bus stations.
-Richard W Symonds, Ifield, Crawley
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