Mr Bates vs The Post Office

[and31]

I remember this when it happened.Absolutely shameful from the post office.why can’t people be made to answer for this? Disgusting.
I’d like to see the people responsible for the cover up be put through the courts to see how they fking like it

[Master Bean]

Saab 900 in the background in the opening shots.

[Digger]

OMITN said:

Four.

I want to be able to watch this in one go, so hoping for s as chance to stream once all episodes are available.

I’m a lawyer in a retail business and would like to think I could remain sufficiently objective if presented with a situation like this.

All episodes available now on ITVX

[Bonefish Blues]

Thanks for letting us know

[alangla]

Bonefish Blues said:

Royal Mail, not the Post Office surely?

Up until 2012, Royal Mail Group was the parent company of the Post Office. Crozier was chief executive of Royal Mail Group from 2003-2010.

[OMITN]

Digger said:

All episodes available now on ITVX

Thx.

[airsafari87]

Watched all of the episodes today and it was really well made. I hadn’t realised that it had been such a large and murky problem.

As others have said, ‘Enjoy’ isn’t the right word.

[GreengiantPH]

Watched the first episode, very good, need to binge watch the rest tomorrow.

Observation because I recognised them, Fenny Compton village hall is actually Pratts Bottom Village hall in North Kent. Recognised it because they hold a model railway exhibition there every year and I have exhibited layouts there many times. I used to belong to the railway club in the village.
Lee the post master, which I think they said his post office was in Birmingham, is actually in St Mary Cray, just behind the Mary Rose pub, just a few miles down the road from Pratts Bottom.
[nerdy observation off]

[Mezzanine]

SydneyBridge said:

I follow this chap and he has written a superb book

https://www.postofficescandal.uk/

Hopefully justice one day for those who knew

Everyone should read this book.

I doubt this programme will have room to cover everything you should know about this subject.

[paulw123]

2 episodes in. Well produced and is compelling viewing but makes you feel so angry for the poor souls involved.

[daqinggregg]

I will just leave this here.

Paula Vennells started her career with Unilever and L’Oreal. She became the Chief Executive of Post Office Limited in 2012. She was Group Commercial Director for Whitbread Plc and held directorships in sales and marketing with several of the UK’s largest retailers, including Dixons Stores Group and Argos.

She is a Non-Executive Director of Morrisons Plc, a member of the government’s Financial Inclusion Policy Forum and of the Ethical Investment Advisory Group for the Church of England. She’s been a Trustee for the Hymns Ancient and Modern Group and a member of the Future High Street Forum.

She received her CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours List for services to the Post Office and to charity.

Apparently she has no recollection,

[GliderRider]

daqinggregg said:

I will just leave this here.

Paula Vennells started her career with Unilever and L’Oreal. She became the Chief Executive of Post Office Limited in 2012. She was Group Commercial Director for Whitbread Plc and held directorships in sales and marketing with several of the UK’s largest retailers, including Dixons Stores Group and Argos.

She is a Non-Executive Director of Morrisons Plc, a member of the government’s Financial Inclusion Policy Forum and of the Ethical Investment Advisory Group for the Church of England. She’s been a Trustee for the Hymns Ancient and Modern Group and a member of the Future High Street Forum.

She received her CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours List for services to the Post Office and to charity.

Apparently she has no recollection,

If ever there was a case for someone being put up against a wall and shot for the suffering their willful actions have caused, Paula Vennells has to be prime contender.

[EliseNick]

daqinggregg said:

I will just leave this here.

Paula Vennells started her career with Unilever and L’Oreal. She became the Chief Executive of Post Office Limited in 2012. She was Group Commercial Director for Whitbread Plc and held directorships in sales and marketing with several of the UK’s largest retailers, including Dixons Stores Group and Argos.

She is a Non-Executive Director of Morrisons Plc, a member of the government’s Financial Inclusion Policy Forum and of the Ethical Investment Advisory Group for the Church of England. She’s been a Trustee for the Hymns Ancient and Modern Group and a member of the Future High Street Forum.

She received her CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours List for services to the Post Office and to charity.

Apparently she has no recollection,

There's a petition to have her stripped of her CBE, for all the good it'll do.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/strip-paula...

[Belle427]

Dreadful how people are allowed to get away with this, lives ruined possibly even lost and still nothing done.
What a fked up country we live in.

[Alickadoo]

Belle427 said:

Dreadful how people are allowed to get away with this, lives ruined possibly even lost and still nothing done.
What a fked up country we live in.

Get a grip of yourself.

Some people were badly treated - agreed, but it doesn't mean the country is ruined.

Get a sense of proportion.

[andyA700]

This is from 2020 and this whole sordid matter has not been resolved, the corrupt, evil people who caused so much harm have not been brought to justice. Why didn't the justice system go after the like of Paula Vennells or Fujitsu?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4UYP8JP61A

[Milkyway]

Thirty eight pence for a stamp... disgusting.

[andyA700]

Alickadoo said:

Belle427 said:

Dreadful how people are allowed to get away with this, lives ruined possibly even lost and still nothing done.
What a fked up country we live in.

Get a grip of yourself.

Some people were badly treated - agreed, but it doesn't mean the country is ruined.

Get a sense of proportion.

You don't seem to get it, why so many people suffered, because the Post Office were/are totally corrupt and were able to dispense their own kind of justice, acting above and apart from the law.

[Alickadoo]

andyA700 said:

You don't seem to get it, why so many people suffered, because the Post Office were/are totally corrupt and were able to dispense their own kind of justice, acting above and apart from the law.

What I am suggesting is that we keep a sense of proportion.

The Post Office is not totally corrupt. It may have been partially corrupt.

The country is not ruined.

I am suggesting that we avoid exaggerated language.

Calm down, dear.

[fridaypassion]

Bbc have an excellent podcast on this on iPlayer it's absolutely staggering what happened to these people and a total scandal that it took so long to resolve.