I've just found Bri Roberts' post about the Post Office scandal and had to look twice at the date Bri posted it. It was in June 2020 nearly four years ago and yet it took the recent TV drama Mr Bates Vs the Post Office to get things moving on this scandal
I watched the whole series and found it very emotional and my thoughts went out to all those people who were wrongly accused by the Post Office of false accounting. I've also spoken to a number of people who were so upset while watching the first episode that they couldn't watch any more of it
This week on TV there were two separate reports about the scandal, the first was about a former Postmaster who was wrongly accused of false accounting and he left the area in the West Country where he lived and moved hundreds of miles away to Northumberland just to get away from it all. He hadn't been back to the village in the West Country since but recently returned there to be greeted by his true friends and he was in tears, it was a really emotional time for him
The second TV report was about a current sub Postmaster who had also been accused of false accounting and apparently the Post Office are still using the Horizon computer system that has brought so much heartache to hundreds of people in the past. I must admit that when I heard that I was extremely angry but I bet that's nothing to what those innocent victims think about the Post Office
An article in the Daily Post recently was about the difficulty of finding someone to take over the Post Office in a Gwynedd village and that's understandable.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/gwynedd-town-no-post-office-28537993
