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A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional services, which vary by country. These include providing and accepting government forms, and processing government services and fees. The chief administrator of a post office is called a postmaster.
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Victims of second Post Office accounting software scandal 'to be offered compensation' The government will offer compensation to Post Office Capture victims - while refusing to rule out blanket exoneration for those convicted.Sky News - Published | |
Post Office accused of 'profound evil' by IT inquiry lawyer "The evil the Post Office did was profound", a lawyer has told the Horizon IT scandal inquiry while describing a "deliberate conspiracy" and "cover up".Sky News - Published | |
'It's time Fujitsu took responsibility': Daughter of Post Office victim calls for compensation The daughter of a Post Office victim who was investigated while fighting terminal cancer says it's time Fujitsu "took responsibility" on compensation.Sky News - Published | |
Post Office to cut senior leadership team by 50% under '£1.2bn transformation' The scandal-hit Post Office has moved to cut its senior leadership team by half under efforts to reduce costs and bolster the business's damaged culture.Sky News - Published | |
Post Office to set out plans for branch closures and job cuts The Post Office is drawing up plans to close dozens of branches and axe hundreds of head office jobs as it tries to place its finances on a sustainable long-term footing.Sky News - Published | |
Former union boss denies being 'too close' to Post OfficeThe former head of a union for sub-postmasters has denied it became "too close" to the Post Office and was "flush with money".Sky News - Published | |
Sub-postmasters beam at inquiry as former Post Office boss finally faces their questionsIn the 15-year scandal of the Post Office, this may be remembered as the day that hundreds of sub-postmasters, subject to the greatest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, were finally..Sky News - Published | |
Sub-postmasters and a top executive don't believe key Post Office boss's accountThe account of the Post Office's former chief executive about what she knew during key years of the firm's scandal is not believed by the former CEO of Royal Mail, the inquiry into the injustice has..Sky News - Published | |
About 100 sub-postmaster convictions separate to Post Office cases may be 'tainted'Prosecutions of sub postmasters by the Department for Work and Pensions could be "tainted" as Sky News reveals officials worked with now discredited Post Office investigators to secure convictions.Sky News - Published | |
Banks brace for Post Office showdown over cash access feeBritain's biggest banks are bracing themselves for talks with the Post Office over a new deal to allow millions of their customers to withdraw cash at its branches.Sky News - Published | |
Ex-Post Office executive called 'gatekeeper of the remote access secret' at inquiryThe former head of accounting for the Post Office has been described as the "gatekeeper of the remote access secret", the inquiry has heard.Sky News - Published | |
Review ordered into another Post Office IT system amid claims of more wrongful convictionsThe government has agreed to have an independent expert review of a Post Office IT system predating Horizon, amid claims dozens more sub-postmasters may have been wrongly convicted.Sky News - Published | |
Post Office blamed 'temptation' of 'cash lying around' rather than accept IT faults, ex-MP tells inquirySenior executives at the Post Office suggested that "lots and lots of cash lying around in unexpected places" might have meant sub-postmasters were led "into temptation", rather than accept IT..Sky News - Published | Post Office officials 'knew of instruction for Fujitsu to remotely change sub-postmaster accounts 10 years ago'The Post Office's IT helpdesk was instructing Fujitsu, the maker of faulty accounting software, to change sub-postmaster accounts more than a decade ago, according to leaked recordings.Sky News - Published |
More than £1m claimed as Post Office 'profit' may have come from sub-postmastersMore than £1m of unexplained transactions were transferred in to Post Office profit at the height of the Horizon scandal, leaked documents have shown.Sky News - Published | Post Office scandal victims secure improved interim compensationThe government has announced it will significantly increase the interim payment given to Post Office workers who have their convictions overturned, from £163,000 to £450,000.Sky News - Published |
Post Office would stand by prosecution of more than 350 sub-postmasters, boss told minister in letterThe boss of the Post Office wrote a letter to ministers saying he would stand by the prosecution of more than 350 of the sub-postmasters convicted in the Horizon scandal.Sky News - Published | Postmistress felt she had to grovel for compensation after two-decade fightFeeling she had to grovel for compensation only deepened Jo Hamilton's anguish after a two-decade fight with the Post Office.Sky News - Published |
Former Post Office clerk cleared of fraud linked to Horizon scandalA former Post Office worker wrongly convicted of fraud during the Horizon scandal has been cleared by the Court of Appeal.Sky News - Published | Post Office issues 'go beyond' Horizon IT scandal, says business secretaryThe business secretary has told Sky News that issues at the Post Office "go beyond" the Horizon IT scandal.Sky News - Published |
'Need for new leadership' at Post Office as chairman ousted, business secretary saysThe business secretary has said she "felt there was a need for new leadership" at the Post Office as it was announced its chairman is being forced out of the role.Sky News - Published | Fujitsu admits it was 'involved from the very start' in Post Office scandal and helped prosecute sub-postmastersA senior figure from Fujitsu has apologised for the Horizon scandal and said the company has a "moral obligation" to contribute to the compensation scheme for victims.Sky News - Published |
Victims in Post Office scandal demand criminal prosecutions for those in chargeA group of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of stealing more than £100,000 from the Post Office have told Sky News there must be criminal prosecutions against those in charge.Sky News - Published | Former Post Office worker to challenge Lib Dem leader at general electionA woman who spent more than three decades working for the Post Office is planning to stand against Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey - a former postal affairs minister - at the next general..Sky News - Published |
Rishi Sunak adds to pressure on former Post Office head to have CBE strippedRishi Sunak has added to the pressure on the former head of the Post Office to have her CBE removed in the wake of the Horizon scandal.Sky News - Published | Victim in Post Office IT scandal 'couldn't tell dad she would be okay before he died'A former sub-postmistress wrongly prosecuted over the Post Office IT scandal says she was unable to tell her father she would be okay before he recently died because she is still waiting for..Sky News - Published |
Post Office workers walk out in fresh strike over pay Post Office workers have walked out in a fresh dispute over pay, potentially resulting in 114 branches being unable to open.Sky News - Published | 'It just broke him': Post Office 'massively contributed' to husband's early death, says widow The widow of a sub postmaster wrongly convicted of theft has told Sky News that the Post Office "contributed" to his death.Sky News - Published |
What is the Post Office IT scandal and why has an inquiry taken so long? A public inquiry has begun into how more than 700 Post Office workers were wrongly prosecuted for stealing company money - ruining their reputations and leaving many bankrupt and in prison.Sky News - Published | |
