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Yet another case of TP being ahead of his time: BS Johnson and Reacher Gilt in the REAL Royal Post Office. | Yet another case of TP being ahead of his time: BS Johnson and Reacher Gilt in the REAL Royal Post Office. [https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-in-the-post I hope the assassin's guild is sent after these administrators] | ||
:Unfortunately the very long link doesn't work and it's too many characters for me to guess the problem. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 22:45, 13 January 2024 (UTC) | |||
Grrr. Sorry, folks. Thanks for letting me know, Old Dickens. I've edited the link above, and checked it - it seems to work. Please let me know! TL:DR - the post office bought some financial management software in the late 90s, it was known to be unreliable and wrong, yet administrators convinced themselves the software had exposed all sorts of fraud by local postmasters. Who were then put in jail or ruined financially, despite having done nothing wrong except anger an algorithm. And administrators pushed on for decades, regardless of The Truth, though that's a different book. [[User:Moishe Rosenbaum|Moishe Rosenbaum]] ([[User talk:Moishe Rosenbaum|talk]]) 01:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Ah. I suspected that was what it was about. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:42, 15 January 2024 (UTC) | |||
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Yet another case of TP being ahead of his time: BS Johnson and Reacher Gilt in the REAL Royal Post Office. I hope the assassin's guild is sent after these administrators
- Unfortunately the very long link doesn't work and it's too many characters for me to guess the problem. --Old Dickens (talk) 22:45, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Grrr. Sorry, folks. Thanks for letting me know, Old Dickens. I've edited the link above, and checked it - it seems to work. Please let me know! TL:DR - the post office bought some financial management software in the late 90s, it was known to be unreliable and wrong, yet administrators convinced themselves the software had exposed all sorts of fraud by local postmasters. Who were then put in jail or ruined financially, despite having done nothing wrong except anger an algorithm. And administrators pushed on for decades, regardless of The Truth, though that's a different book. Moishe Rosenbaum (talk) 01:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
- Ah. I suspected that was what it was about. --Old Dickens (talk) 01:42, 15 January 2024 (UTC)