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MORE than a decade after leaving the postal service, I still find myself waking up at 5am.
I was in a few months before we went on strike on wages, terms and conditions in a company that had made £400 million, promptly grabbed by chancellor Ken Clarke to help fund the usual pre-election bribe.
It was a different time, as they say.
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