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Post office: Customer service facility of a postal system
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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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.
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Post Office to set out plans for branch closures and job cuts

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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.
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Former union boss denies being 'too close' to Post Office

The former head of a union for sub-postmasters has denied it became "too close" to the Post Office and was "flush with money".
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Sub-postmasters beam at inquiry as former Post Office boss finally faces their questions

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Sub-postmasters and a top executive don't believe key Post Office boss's account

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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.
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Banks brace for Post Office showdown over cash access fee 

Britain'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.
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Ex-Post Office executive called 'gatekeeper of the remote access secret' at inquiry

The former head of accounting for the Post Office has been described as the "gatekeeper of the remote access secret", the inquiry has heard.
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Review ordered into another Post Office IT system amid claims of more wrongful convictions

The 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.
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Post Office blamed 'temptation' of 'cash lying around' rather than accept IT faults, ex-MP tells inquiry

Senior 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..
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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.
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More than £1m claimed as Post Office 'profit' may have come from sub-postmasters

More than £1m of unexplained transactions were transferred in to Post Office profit at the height of the Horizon scandal, leaked documents have shown.
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Post Office scandal victims secure improved interim compensation

The 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.
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Post Office would stand by prosecution of more than 350 sub-postmasters, boss told minister in letter

The 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.
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Postmistress felt she had to grovel for compensation after two-decade fight

Feeling she had to grovel for compensation only deepened Jo Hamilton's anguish after a two-decade fight with the Post Office.
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Former Post Office clerk cleared of fraud linked to Horizon scandal

A former Post Office worker wrongly convicted of fraud during the Horizon scandal has been cleared by the Court of Appeal.
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Post Office issues 'go beyond' Horizon IT scandal, says business secretary

The business secretary has told Sky News that issues at the Post Office "go beyond" the Horizon IT scandal.
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'Need for new leadership' at Post Office as chairman ousted, business secretary says

The 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.
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Fujitsu admits it was 'involved from the very start' in Post Office scandal and helped prosecute sub-postmasters

A 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.
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Victims in Post Office scandal demand criminal prosecutions for those in charge

A 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.
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Former Post Office worker to challenge Lib Dem leader at general election

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Rishi Sunak adds to pressure on former Post Office head to have CBE stripped

Rishi 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.
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Victim in Post Office IT scandal 'couldn't tell dad she would be okay before he died'

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Post Office workers walk out in fresh strike over pay

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Post Office workers have walked out in a fresh dispute over pay, potentially resulting in 114 branches being unable to open.
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'It just broke him': Post Office 'massively contributed' to husband's early death, says widow

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The widow of a sub postmaster wrongly convicted of theft has told Sky News that the Post Office "contributed" to his death.
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What is the Post Office IT scandal and why has an inquiry taken so long?

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