Post Office outages and service status in Reading, England
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Problems in the last 24 hours in Reading, England
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Post Office Issues Reports Near Reading, England
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Reading and nearby locations:
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Tom Sargeant (@millennial_tom) reported from Reading, England@WHSmith @PostOffice I am at the @PostOffice now trying to work out what is going on. Kudos for responding. They say they canโt help in any way.
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Anne ๐ป๐๐ (@annief1) reported from Didcot, England@PostOffice I posted a normal package 3rd December and its still not arrived. ๐ฑ. Apparently many have had a problem, with this date. So lady in Didcot / coop p/O said.
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Kim (@Neeknowsbest) reported from Didcot, England@PostOffice Took some old notes to local main Post Office to be told you no longer exchange them, or allow them to be paid into bank account. No wonder Post offices are closing all the time. No longer offering a service to the community.
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๐ ๐๐๐๐๐กโ๐ โ๏ธ (@smnthklly) reported from Reading, EnglandOmg I do a manifest every time and my parcels never get processed or processed incorrectly and then Iโm left in a state wondering where the rest are until I can contact the PO again.. I even highlight on the manifest @PostOffice what happens if a sack of parcels goes missing?
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Lorna Hicks (@lornypop) reported from Wokingham, EnglandAVOID #BYFLEET #POSTOFFICE #rude #unproffesional #tradingstandards being informed!!
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The Rock Box Record Store (@RockBoxRecords) reported from Camberley, England@101andyhibberd @PostOffice @farnhamherald To make you feel better Andy, same situation in Camberley today. Self services machine not working, 2 tills and 12 people in queue. Oh & one till then closed after serving 1 of 12 to cash up or something. 20 minutes later......
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Tom Sargeant (@millennial_tom) reported from Reading, England@Cremedevape @PostOffice @WHSmith @parcelforce @RoyalMailHelp Absolute comedy of errors going on here. I wouldnโt mind much, except this was a really important package to me!
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Dan Adams (@CamberleyDan) reported from Camberley, EnglandThe new Camberley @PostOffice rules of only being allowed to use self service machines surely will cause some difficulties for some members of the community
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Jennifer Cowton (@Jennifer_Cowton) reported from Bracknell, England@PostOffice no service in #bracknell #moneyexxhange now as lady is โon a breakโ eating her lunch at the desk #shockingservice
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Adric Warth (@adric_warth) reported from Didcot, England@PostOffice I feel really really let down & will be lodging a complaint. Please can you provide the phone number for you complaints department
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Anne (@annief1) reported from Didcot, England@PostOffice Thank you. I have worked for a PO, I used to run one in the 90s. . I am also trained in Customer care. There is nothing wrong with chatting at work. But the customer comes first. You don't chat to another colleague, about something irrelevant whilst serving. Thank you.
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Fiona Anderson (@FionaLegal) reported from Wokingham, EnglandThanks very much Roger Gale of the @PostOffice - great business acumen. How pleased he must be with himself for getting rid of well known staff, a decent post office and a decent service to replace it with bargain basement b.s. of a "post office" with nowhere to pick up parcels!
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Tom Sargeant (@millennial_tom) reported from Reading, EnglandSo @parcelforce say they canโt do anything because I handed my parcel in @PostOffice who subsequently incorrectly gave it to @RoyalMail. In fact the only team who seem to give a damn are @WHSmith where the @PostOffice are located!
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Peter Baker, MA. ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฑ #NUFC 'till I die ! (@PeterBa82304711) reported from Reading, England@johnredwood @YvetteHenson 1/2 And why did the #PostOffice & #Fujitsu ignore &/or hide the fact that there were significant problems with said it system, preferring instead to shift the blame onto totally innocent people ? At least one of whom was told not to mention the system in legal/proceedings/Court !
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Anne ๐ป๐๐ (@annief1) reported from Didcot, England@PostOffice I would also like to point out. The staff really should make people aware of this. The assistant (female) not the older lady, is rude too. I don't live here but my daughter in law does, and assistant is always rude.
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Anne (@annief1) reported from Didcot, England@PostOffice Absolutely appalling customer service, IN Didcot PO today. The one inside Whsmith. .. Serving me and discussing the Christmas Party they can't, have with colleague! Always time for this after but not during service. Customers come first. ๐ฑ. #postoffice
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tom horrox (@tommyhozza) reported from Finchampstead, England@joshjay1969 @RoyalMail You might want to tag @PostOffice as @RoyalMail is a different company... "my golf just broke down... damn you vauxhall" ๐คฃ
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Adric Warth (@adric_warth) reported from Didcot, England@PostOffice I spoke to The staff at WH Smith where the post office is located & they were surprised when they closed at 1. I then went to the Royal Mail depot to see if they could help & they werenโt even aware that it had closed at 1, as far as they knew it was still open
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Peter Baker, MA. ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐บ๐ฆ #IranProtests2022 (@PeterBa82304711) reported from Reading, England@leckston Admittedly it's not the business itself that's causing rhe disruption to mail services but I agree that #RoyalMail & it's #PostOffice arm haven't really acted like the official mail service for many a year. Maybe it is time the lost the 'Royal' prefix status. @10DowningStreet
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Ngwaniwapo (@Munzhedzi_Muk) reported from Reading, England@LilywhiteSimon @PostOffice Damn. Thats disappointing, I think royal mail requires this invoice when claiming cos they know you aint getting it, ever.
Post Office Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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dominos man 183 (@Dominos183) reported@neuro_robo @lily_lna @PostOffice She ainโt gonna ****, robo.
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Artur Nadolny (@ArturNadol7566) reportedBINNED BY THE POST OFFICE Fiona Elliott and her husband bought the shop, post office and house in Clady, County Tyrone in 2005. Their plan was simple. Run it well, retire comfortably, leave something solid behind for the kids. Instead the Post Office (@PostOffice) handed them a computer that lied for a living. The Horizon system started throwing up discrepancies almost straight away. ยฃ20 here, ยฃ60 there, then more. Fiona kept plugging the gaps with her own money from the shop till, convinced she or her staff had made a mistake somewhere. She rang the helpline. She asked for an audit. Nobody came. So she did what any exhausted small business owner does when a multi billion pound state owned company won't lift a finger. She went searching through bins at night, checking if scratch cards or lottery slips explained the missing money. They never did. The money was never missing. In 2009 two auditors finally turned up. They spent a couple of hours going through the post office, then told her there was a ยฃ6,000 shortfall on the system and she needed to pay it right then or she'd be looking at a criminal offence. She asked how it had appeared. She'd been putting in hundreds of pounds a week for years and it had never shown up before. They told her it didn't matter, they wanted the ยฃ6,000 in cash right there and then. She didn't have that kind of money in the shop till, so she asked to run to the bank. Refused. The bank was shut for lunch and they weren't waiting around for it to reopen. She offered a cheque instead, the normal way she paid every supplier at the time. Refused again. Cash only. So she went and borrowed it off her brother, who ran the car business down the road, handed the cash straight over, and walked away without a receipt. Read that back. A state owned company sent two people to threaten a woman with a criminal charge over money that never actually went missing, refused a cheque, refused to wait an hour for the bank, took cash off her brother's business, and didn't even bother writing her a receipt. She paid. Of course she paid. Nobody wants to find out the hard way that Horizon's word beats theirs in a courtroom too. Rural post offices were being closed around then, so she took redundancy and rented the shop out. The new tenant hit the exact same phantom shortfalls. The bank repossessed the lot and sold it for ยฃ40,000. Fiona and her husband had paid ยฃ322,000 for it. The bank didn't stop there either, it went on to repossess the buy-to-let properties they owned as well. The building she once planned to retire on is boarded up now, sitting in the middle of the village like a monument nobody in charge wanted to admit they built. She testified to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry (@PostOffInquiry) in 2022. She is still fighting for compensation today, offered only 5% of what she believes she is owed, turned down on appeal three times, and pointed toward the Horizon Shortfall Scheme, which she says she has little faith in after wasting years on it already. Nobody stole a penny. The Post Office just needed someone to blame, and a rural shopkeeper searching her own bins at midnight was easier to accuse than a broken system built by Fujitsu (@fujitsu_uk) and defended for decades by executives who knew exactly what it was doing.
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Chris (@ryansmi89) reported@PostOffice Just now, issues happen but saying itโs nationwide on a notice when there donโt appear to be any is the issue.
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Louisa โญ๏ธโญ๏ธ๐๐๐ (@pawseygirl) reportedI feel sorry for the guy who works in the @PostOffice in Walthamstow, he is always very polite and efficient, but always working on his own with a queue out the door. I donโt know why they donโt give him help
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Alison (@townend_alison) reported@lily_lna @PostOffice I read it as you were an employee to which my first thought was yes inappropriate but after seeing your comment that you were a customer they IMO have no right to dictate what you or anyone else should wear when entering their store as a paying customer.
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Artur Nadolny (@ArturNadol7566) reportedPOST OFFICE REWRITES ITS OWN SCANDAL I was reading through the Post Office Process Review page on the corporate @PostOffice website when one paragraph was cought my attention... The PPR, was set up after the Common Issues Judgment in March 2019, the ruling that came out of Alan Bates and others versus Post Office Limited and first forced Post Office to admit its Horizon accounting system was unreliable and that postmasters had been wrongly blamed for shortfalls the system itself created. "Since the Common Issues Judgment in March 2019, we have carried out work across the business to identify products, policies or processes that may have caused financial loss to Postmasters because of the way they were designed or delivered." The background section on the page says Post Office has carried out work to identify products, policies or processes that may have caused financial loss to postmasters because of the way they were designed or delivered. That phrasing removes Post Office as the party doing the designing and delivering. The losses did not just happen because of how something was designed, Post Office designed it. "We wish to put this right in a straightforward and transparent way, and we have therefore set up the Post Office Process Review to provide financial redress for current and former Postmasters who were impacted." A line further down says Post Office wishes to put this right in a straightforward and transparent way. That reads as voluntary goodwill. What actually happened is a court judgment forced Post Office to admit fault after years of fighting the litigation that proved it, and the PPR exists because of that judgment, not out of an independent wish to be transparent. "You may be aware that there have also been other redress schemes available for people impacted by the Horizon IT Scandal. You can submit a request to the Post Office Process Review whether or not you have separately received a payment or have a case in progress through any of those other redress schemes." Then comes the paragraph that caught my attention most. It tells readers there have also been other redress schemes available for people impacted by the Horizon IT Scandal, and that a postmaster can apply to the PPR whether or not they have already received a payment through one of those other schemes. Read on its own, with no background on the case, this makes Post Office sound like an intermediary. Something called the Horizon IT Scandal happened to postmasters, and Post Office is now helping them access redress for it, alongside other schemes that also exist to help. Post Office built and ran the Horizon system. Post Office prosecuted postmasters using data from that system. Post Office fought the litigation that eventually proved the system was flawed, for years, at public expense, before the judgment forced its hand. The redress schemes named here, including the PPR itself, exist because Post Office caused the losses they compensate. The page also treats the PPR issues and the Horizon IT Scandal as two separate subjects, one involving products, policies and processes, the other a scandal that happened elsewhere, to other people, through other schemes. A postmaster or anybody else reading this without prior context could reasonably conclude that Post Office is a well-meaning administrator cleaning up a mess it did not create. Most people who land on this page are not journalists or campaigners. They are current or former postmasters, or their family members, trying to work out if they are owed money and how to ask for it, and many will not have followed the litigation, the public inquiry, or the years of reporting that established what actually happened. For that reader, the framing on this page is the information. If it tells them Post Office is helping victims of a scandal rather than admitting to causing one, that is what they will take away, and it will shape how much scrutiny they think the process deserves. Post Office has spent years controlling how this story gets told, first by denying there was a problem at all, then by fighting compensation claims, and now by writing its own compensation scheme in language that keeps the institution at arm's length from what it did. The wording on this page is small. The pattern is not.
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Queen of F*cken Everything ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐๐ฆ (@choclitlover1) reported@n_xddy @lily_lna @PostOffice Take your micro penis and **** off you horrible little incel!
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Lou (@Louise71James) reported@lily_lna @PostOffice **** that! No topless yes ok, more than reasonable for a female lol. Any other attire in THE UK, should not be a problem. ***** pervs too worried about getting a hard on over a girls backless outfit! **** off to your backwards country! Omg makes me so angry!
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Varchasanraj V Patel (@VarchasPatel) reported@brianwhelton @PostOffice I can't help but agree. For example, why was Julia Marwood summoned back (after retirement) to help with the collection of evidence for the Inquiry given she knew of the "Receipts & Mismatch Bug" and rendered my father for prosecution. Criminals help each other.
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Indian Council Of Press (@IndianCouncilO3) reported@IndiaPostOffice Question Over Post Office Service Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) matured on 14 June 2026, but payment is still pending due to Pledge Release Order verification. How long will verification take? Please expedite the process and release the payment without further delay. #PostOffice #KVP