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Post Office explores taking branch owner-operators to court again

Post Office explores taking branch owner-operators to court again



State-owned body writing off losses of £12m a year after stopping practice, inquiry toldThe Post Office has recently explored resuming the practice of taking branch owner-operators to court, as mounting losses from shortfalls in its network of 11,500 outlets hit £12m a year.During the Horizon IT scandal more than 900 operators were wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies caused by the faulty accounting software, many of them brought privately by the Post Office, a practice it stopped in 2015 and has promised not to restart. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/13/post-office-explores-taking-branch-owner-operators-court-again

Author : Mark Sweney

Publish date : 2024-10-13 11:58:21

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