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Re:A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scanda... by VBprogrammer on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:37PM (#38955592)
> Astonishingly, more than 700 postmasters were prosecuted without any executive, manager, or statistician recognizing this glaring anomaly.

I was thinking about this last night. I knew there where about 1000 McDonald's in the UK, Googling it there are about 11,500 post offices. At some point you'd have thought someone would have noticed it was a bit excessive.

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Re:A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scanda... by justincormack on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:39PM (#38956647)
Apparently they thought that their staff were all always dishonest and this new computer system was finally revealing this truth, or something like that.
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