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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Joseph Sternberg, in London for the WSJ, about the tragedy called the Post Office Scadal in which hundred and perhaps thousands of sub-postmasters were accused and persecuted as thieves from the cash dr

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation later tonight with colleague Joseph Sternberg, in London for the WSJ, about the tragedy called the Post Office Scadal in which hundred and perhaps thousands of sub-postmasters were accused and persecuted as thieves from the cash drawer when in fact it was bad data from bad software from Japan. Now the argument in the government is over compensation for the abuse, and it is going civil servant slowly. More of this in subsequent reporting.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/post-office-inquiry-scandal-what-we-learnt-pgcq0jf6q

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0:29.4

This is John Bachelor. In London it's known as the post office scandal.

0:35.0

Hundreds, thousands of sub-postmasters. These are people who have a candy store or a store that also serves as a postal drop for stamps and dropping

0:47.0

her letter off were accused over many years of thievory of stealing from cash. It turns out there is good reason to believe that the

0:57.4

software employed by the post office in Britain was defective. How long people knew it was defective is unknown at this moment.

1:06.8

The consideration is how to compensate the people who were prosecuted, some jailed, humiliated, driven from their employment, and remain under shadow because of bad

1:20.2

software made by a Japanese company named Fujitsu.

1:24.0

Everybody's now apologizing, but that is not satisfaction.

1:27.0

There's much more to this story.

1:29.0

Joseph Sternberg, my colleague in London for the Wall Street Journal editorial page

1:34.0

summarizes right now the question of compensation and as Joe says

1:39.0

Hurry is Joseph Sternberg

1:42.0

Wall Street Journal on the Post Office scandal of Britain.

1:45.0

I think they are talking about money and I hope they do it very quickly because some of these people are elderly.

1:52.0

And there's going to be a big argument about whether

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