Hackernews posts about Post Office

Post Office is a government-run postal service provider in the United Kingdom that was embroiled in a scandal involving the wrongful conviction and persecution of its own employees due to faulty computer software.

1. Japan's Missing Post Office: Where people send letters to the dead (www.washingtonpost.com)
   4 points by wallflower 8 days ago | discuss
2. Send a letter online – avoid the Post Office (printpigeon.co.uk)
   2 points by giankar 29 days ago | discuss
3. USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Escorted from Office by Security (gizmodo.com)
   84 points by itronitron 16 days ago | 52 comments
4. Fact-checking DeepSeek hype with DeepSeek
   4 points by omega3 19 days ago | discuss
5. Elon Musk staff has been caught installing drives inside the OPM office (bsky.app)
   87 points by belter 16 days ago | 80 comments
6. Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower (www.bbc.co.uk)
   525 points by johndunne about 1 year ago | 298 comments
7. How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives (www.cnn.com)
   385 points by IronWolve about 1 year ago | 331 comments
8. A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scandal into the Light (www.nytimes.com)
   200 points by infotainment about 1 year ago | 168 comments
9. The US post office is spying on the mail – senators want to stop it (www.wired.com)
   200 points by impish9208 almost 2 years ago | 69 comments
10. Post Office lawyers held secret meeting with judge to stop disclosure (www.lawgazette.co.uk)
    188 points by chrisjj 8 months ago | 158 comments
11. Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal (www.bbc.co.uk)
    187 points by physicsguy about 1 year ago | 90 comments
12. British Post Office Scandal (en.wikipedia.org)
    169 points by dragonbonheur about 1 year ago | 149 comments
13. Ex Post Office CEO hands back award after IT failures lead to false convictions (www.bbc.com)
    146 points by alibarber about 1 year ago | 127 comments
14. Secret papers reveal Post Office knew its court defence was false (www.bbc.co.uk)
    106 points by chrisjj 11 months ago | 14 comments
15. Post Office scandal victims in Scotland have convictions quashed (www.computerweekly.com)
    104 points by taubek 8 months ago | 29 comments
16. French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp (www.theguardian.com)
    100 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 23 comments
17. UK Post Office: 700 Horizon software scandal victims to receive £600k each (www.theguardian.com)
    89 points by martynr over 1 year ago | 40 comments
18. Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)
    83 points by thunderbong about 1 year ago | 62 comments
19. Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know (www.computerweekly.com)
    69 points by chrisjj 7 months ago | 46 comments
20. US Post Office phishing sites get as much traffic as the real one (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
    66 points by gennarro 10 months ago | 20 comments
21. Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes (www.theregister.com)
    48 points by belter about 1 year ago | 37 comments
22. Post office doxes all postmasters targeted in horizon scandal (www.bbc.co.uk)
    47 points by madaxe_again 8 months ago | 15 comments
23. Engineer insists Post Office software did a 'good job' (www.thetimes.com)
    46 points by pelagicAustral 8 months ago | 50 comments
24. Fujitsu says it will pay compensation in UK Post Office scandal (www.japantimes.co.jp)
    43 points by anigbrowl about 1 year ago | 28 comments
25. What went wrong with Horizon: learning from the Post Office Trial (www.benthamsgaze.org)
    40 points by DyslexicAtheist about 1 year ago | 19 comments
26. Post Office tried to 'hush up' case of worker who killed himself, inquiry hears (www.theguardian.com)
    39 points by chrisjj 10 months ago | 1 comments
27. Post Office betrays postmasters yet again: 'horrific' potential data breach (www.dailymail.co.uk)
    36 points by chrisjj 8 months ago | 10 comments
28. Ex-Fujitsu engineer admits changing court testimony at request of Post Office (www.theguardian.com)
    36 points by chrisjj 8 months ago | 7 comments
29. UK Post Office paid out bonuses for every conviction under Horizon scandal (www.telegraph.co.uk)
    36 points by concerto about 1 year ago | 1 comments
30. A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued (www.washingtonpost.com)
    33 points by helsinkiandrew about 1 year ago | 52 comments
31. UK Post Office burns 31M pounds on failed cloud migration (www.thestack.technology)
    31 points by galenmarchetti about 1 year ago | 5 comments
32. More faulty UK Post Office IT wrecks lives (news.sky.com)
    29 points by nonrandomstring about 1 year ago | 9 comments
33. Alan Bates the campaigner for the Post Office IT scandal has been knighted (www.theguardian.com)
    25 points by jack_riminton 8 months ago | 12 comments
34. How the Post Office's Horizon system failed: a technical breakdown (www.theguardian.com)
    25 points by jimnotgym about 1 year ago | 4 comments
35. Post Office Horizon IT Scandal: Alan Bates threatens legal action against govt (www.postofficescandal.uk)
    23 points by chrisjj 9 months ago | discuss