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Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

RE: Post office scandal

SF · Getting Gobby

Somebody with considerable power and influence in the voluntary sector went public about the unacceptable delays to compensation payments just before christmas. The almost immediately started to pay up.

Digger · Admin

i'm just watching it now. What those poor people went through was terrible.

Maddog · Go Outside

Digger wrote:
jackthelad wrote:
Maddog wrote:
I read this thread again, while also reading the one about the NHS.

Many Americans have said for years that we don't want the same people running our healthcare as are running our Post Office.

While I'm not aware of any similar disgrace at our Post Office, like this case, all Americans are aware of their poor service and not giving a flying fuck.
The same people who run the mail don't run the NHS.

Royal Mail and the Post Office are totally different entities. Many people think they are one and the same thing but they're not.

The post office isn't run by the government?

I do know that Canada privatized theirs some years back. Did y'all do the same?

Digger · Admin

Maddog wrote:
Digger wrote:
jackthelad wrote:
Maddog wrote:
I read this thread again, while also reading the one about the NHS.

Many Americans have said for years that we don't want the same people running our healthcare as are running our Post Office.

While I'm not aware of any similar disgrace at our Post Office, like this case, all Americans are aware of their poor service and not giving a flying fuck.
The same people who run the mail don't run the NHS.

Royal Mail and the Post Office are totally different entities. Many people think they are one and the same thing but they're not.
The post office isn't run by the government?

I do know that Canada privatized theirs some years back. Did y'all do the same?

The Post Office Ltd as it is known in its current form came into existence in 2001. Ten years later the Postal Services Act 2011 was significant in that it led to the Post Office Ltd becoming independent of the Royal Mail Group as of 1 April 2012.

Royal Mail is owned by private shareholders, and runs the collection, sorting and delivery of post. It is difficult for Post Offices to make a profit - so with Royal Mail in public hands, it was able to reinvest profits into making sure the places you go to buy stamps are well staffed and equipped.

-- Edited by Digger on Friday 5th of January 2024 12:56:49 AM

Maddog · Go Outside

I did some reading it appears the post office is private and kept afloat with some subsidies.

So it's not really government run like the NHS.

But it is like so many entities in the West now. Its an unholy arrangement between government and business.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

I am watching Mr Bates v the Post Office, half way through it....my blood boils at the way these people were treated.
I didn't know that the PO police themselves. At the very least they are a corrupt organisation, deliberately lying and cheating the the people who devoted their lives to them, driving some to suicide,

I will finish watching it before I comment further.

Maddog · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
I am watching Mr Bates v the Post Office, half way through it....my blood boils at the way these people were treated.
I didn't know that the PO police themselves. At the very least they are a corrupt organisation, deliberately lying and cheating the the people who devoted their lives to them, driving some to suicide,

I will finish watching it before I comment further.

So the foxes were policing themselves as they ran amuk through the hen houses and blaming the chickens for decreased egg production..

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
I am watching Mr Bates v the Post Office, half way through it....my blood boils at the way these people were treated.
I didn't know that the PO police themselves. At the very least they are a corrupt organisation, deliberately lying and cheating the the people who devoted their lives to them, driving some to suicide,

I will finish watching it before I comment further.
So the foxes were policing themselves as they ran amuk through the hen houses and blaming the chickens for decreased egg production..

That's about it.

Over 700 sub postmasters/mistresses were accused of theft, fraud or mismanagement, some went to jail, many were bankrupt and lost their homes, life savings, reputations, and ultimately their lives.

Each one, when they asked for help because the new IT system was showing them to be in arrears with their accounts, were told that no one else had had trouble.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

I just watched the final episode...scandalous.

It's good ITV made the series, Heaven knows what would have been covered up had the BBC commissioned it.

Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 Post Office branch managers were convicted after the faulty software made it look like money was missing from their shops. Many were jailed, bankrupted and in some cases, took their own lives - but so far only 93 convictions have been overturned.

Maddog · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
I just watched the final episode...scandalous.

It's good ITV made the series, Heaven knows what would have been covered up had the BBC commissioned it.

Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 Post Office branch managers were convicted after the faulty software made it look like money was missing from their shops. Many were jailed, bankrupted and in some cases, took their own lives - but so far only 93 convictions have been overturned.

What's so crazy is that the number of people who would actually steal is so much lower than that..

When the machines messed up that bad, someone should have concluded that it was virtually statistically impossible for that many managers to be stealing at the same time.

Speaking of machines and software, what could go wrong with this?????.........

"Thousands of self-driving trucks could be on U.S. roads by 2027 following a Friday announcement by autonomous trucking firm Aurora Innovation.

Together with Continental, Pittsburgh-based Aurora said it has finalized the architecture and requirements of its Aurora Driver hardware — an important milestone that will allow the company to scale its driverless trucks and deliver them to commercial partners including PACCAR and Volvo."

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Driverless trucks...God, can you imagine the carnage they could potentially cause.

The board members at the PO knew very well it was their machines that were faulty, they told every sub postmaster that no one else had problems with the system, when hundreds did.

Every employee had to sign a none disclosure agreement pre employment, that was a good way to keep the victims quiet....they were too scared, and too ashamed to speak out..

Date: Jan 9 10:41 AM, 2024

The Marsh family get it spot on yet again! They never fail to impress me.

It's a YouTube link, that guests can't embed, so can admin please do it? Ta very much

https://youtu.be/8M5f5H8p5Q0?feature=shared

-- Edited by Syl on Tuesday 9th of January 2024 05:08:55 PM

Digger · Admin

Syl wrote:
Driverless trucks...God, can you imagine the carnage they could potentially cause.

The board members at the PO knew very well it was their machines that were faulty, they told every sub postmaster that no one else had problems with the system, when hundreds did.

Every employee had to sign a none disclosure agreement pre employment, that was a good way to keep the victims quiet....they were too scared, and too ashamed to speak out..

We saw one of those little delivery automatons trundling down Washway Road near Sale the other day. It was like something out of Star Wars.

jackthelad · Musing at the Chaos

Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
I just watched the final episode...scandalous.

It's good ITV made the series, Heaven knows what would have been covered up had the BBC commissioned it.

Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 Post Office branch managers were convicted after the faulty software made it look like money was missing from their shops. Many were jailed, bankrupted and in some cases, took their own lives - but so far only 93 convictions have been overturned.
What's so crazy is that the number of people who would actually steal is so much lower than that..

When the machines messed up that bad, someone should have concluded that it was virtually statistically impossible for that many managers to be stealing at the same time.

Speaking of machines and software, what could go wrong with this?????.........

"Thousands of self-driving trucks could be on U.S. roads by 2027 following a Friday announcement by autonomous trucking firm Aurora Innovation.

Together with Continental, Pittsburgh-based Aurora said it has finalized the architecture and requirements of its Aurora Driver hardware — an important milestone that will allow the company to scale its driverless trucks and deliver them to commercial partners including PACCAR and Volvo."

And those trucks won't be EV's.

A diesel takes fifteen minutes to fuel up an electric a dozen hours.

Where on earth would thousands of electric trucks fuel up every few hours?

The batteries would weight the same as half a dozen cars so there's the carrying capacity gone.

Short clip from a senate hearing...

There's nowhere near enough power on the grid to convert the U.S. truck fleet to battery electric.

Maddog · Go Outside

jackthelad wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
I just watched the final episode...scandalous.

It's good ITV made the series, Heaven knows what would have been covered up had the BBC commissioned it.

Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 Post Office branch managers were convicted after the faulty software made it look like money was missing from their shops. Many were jailed, bankrupted and in some cases, took their own lives - but so far only 93 convictions have been overturned.
What's so crazy is that the number of people who would actually steal is so much lower than that..

When the machines messed up that bad, someone should have concluded that it was virtually statistically impossible for that many managers to be stealing at the same time.

Speaking of machines and software, what could go wrong with this?????.........

"Thousands of self-driving trucks could be on U.S. roads by 2027 following a Friday announcement by autonomous trucking firm Aurora Innovation.

Together with Continental, Pittsburgh-based Aurora said it has finalized the architecture and requirements of its Aurora Driver hardware — an important milestone that will allow the company to scale its driverless trucks and deliver them to commercial partners including PACCAR and Volvo."
And those trucks won't be EV's.
A diesel takes fifteen minutes to fuel up an electric a dozen hours.
Where on earth would thousands of electric trucks fuel up every few hours?
The batteries would weight the same as half a dozen cars so there's the carrying capacity gone.
Short clip from a senate hearing...
There's nowhere near enough power on the grid to convert the U.S. truck fleet to battery electric.

Like a lot of concepts, they don't work when applied.

But a politician can still get elected selling ideas to people that don't know they won't work..

jackthelad · Musing at the Chaos

There has to be prison sentences.
There has to be wealth taken from certain people as in everything they have.

Paula Vennells was 'lying' about Post Office scandal, claims forensic accountant

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Some Anglican priest she was.
A liar who cared nothing for the people, who lost their homes, their livlihoods, and some, their lives.

Maddog · Go Outside

jackthelad wrote:
There has to be prison sentences.
There has to be wealth taken from certain people as in everything they have.

Paula Vennells was 'lying' about Post Office scandal, claims forensic accountant

Do the Brits have community service as a punishment? She should at the very least have hundreds of hours of service, giving back to society.

A few hundred hours minimum in an orange jumpsuit, picking up trash along the road, for starters.

Digger · Admin

That's right, you scheming avaricious old bitch, shed those salty crocs.