Post Office hires accountants to review sub-postmasters' computer claims

People running sub-post offices have been jailed on the basis of information from the computer systems. Many of these people claim to be innocent.

See also this item from over a year ago.

(http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280095088/Post-Office-fa...)

As a cultural note: in the UK delivery of mail is done by Royal Mail, and the post offices are run by Post Office Counters. They used to be unified but were split during denationalisation measures. Post Offices used to handle a lot of different things; they were the place to get a lot of bureaucratic forms (driving licence applications; vehicle tax disc applications; passport applications etc etc) and to get benefit payments, and also simple banking for people excluded form the system. They are reasonably political (any large national organisation like this in the Uk has heavy union presence) and politicians are fierce to preserve local post offices, which are seen as a part of the community.