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Surely the "missing" money was never there in the first place? If a Post Office had £20,000 in takings on a day, but the buggy system reported takings of £30,0
by Karellen 3y ago
Surely the "missing" money was never there in the first place?
If a Post Office had £20,000 in takings on a day, but the buggy system reported takings of £30,000, then that's £10,000 of money reported missing, which the postmasters were prosecuted for stealing.
But that £10,000 didn't "go" anywhere. It never existed.
- hermitcrab 3y agoIn many cases the subpostmasters paid the 'missing' amount to the Post Office, rather than lose their franchise or even go to prison. That then went towards Post Office profits and management bonuses. Ka-ching - Trebles all round!
- phkahler 3y agoWoops. There are two numbers that don't match here. I just assumed the higher one was correct and the other one was misreported by the system. You may be right that the lower one may be correct and the higher one was wrong, in which case the money never existed.