Post Office outages and service status in Boston, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Boston, England

The chart below shows the number of Post Office reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Boston, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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Post Office Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Michelle (@born2bepink) reported 10 minutes ago

  @PostOffice I am at Purfleet post office…info online says open 9-5.30pm to arrive and find it is closed 1-1.20pm so having to wait 20 mins most of lunch break 😡…why is this not shown online? And why at lunchtime when most home workers to use service???

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  Paul (@DingliPaul) reported 10 minutes ago

  @PostOffice just bought currency from your Saltash store, am shocked at the rate given to me for euros, have I been robbed?? Also, aren’t exchange rates meant to be shown to inform the customer??

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  Artur Nadolny (@ArturNadol7566) reported 11 minutes ago

  POST OFFICE JAILED AN INNOCENT WOMAN Imagine. You run a small @PostOffice in Hull. You show up every day, you serve your community, you do the job. Then one day a computer program called Horizon decides you owe £59,000 that never existed. A computer program with a known glitch problem. Post Office didn't check the software. It just marched Janet Skinner into court in 2007 and got her jailed for 9 months. She served 2 behind bars. She lost her house. She lost her job. She lost her name in the eyes of her own neighbours, all because nobody in a position of power fancied questioning a machine. Here's where any decent organisation would stop digging the hole ... The Post Office kept digging. A year after she walked out of prison, they hauled her back into court again, this time chasing her for "proceeds of crime." Proceeds of a crime she never committed, calculated by a system that couldn't add up in the first place. Bold strategy from the people who broke the calculator in the first place. Less than two weeks after that fresh nightmare finally ended, Janet's body gave out completely. Neurological collapse. Paralysed from the neck down. Doctors told her she'd never walk again. She spent a year in a wheelchair and two years learning to walk. She says her own immune system turned on her. Years of fighting a system that refused to admit fault, and in the end it was her own body that surrendered first. So how does this story end? With an apology? A cheque that actually matches what she lost? Of course not. In 2025, after everything, the compensation scheme handed her an offer worth around 15% of her claim. Janet called it an insult. I'd call it a joke, except nobody's laughing, least of all the people who wrote the offer letter from the comfort of a job that still exists. 9 months in prison for a bug. 2 years in a wheelchair for the stress of proving her innocence. A payout that wouldn't cover the damage to her health, let alone her life. And somewhere, the people who signed off on her prosecution are still drawing a pension. Nobody who signed off on any of this has lost a house, a job, or a night's sleep. They got promotions. She got a wheelchair and an insulting cheque. Accountability had every chance to show up here and chose not to.. SOURCES @BBCNews @itvnews and others.

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  FOXIE (@DepuyBarbara) reported 12 minutes ago

  I had the same problem with Pa DMV . Could not get a star on my drivers license. Took the same documents to Postoffice and got a $40 cheap passport. AREAL HASSLE! Will plain old drivers license work ?

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  Pramod Agarwal (@pramodagarwal62) reported 13 minutes ago

  @speedpost does not work most of the times. System is down.why @postoffice cannot fix the issues and provide reliable service.

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  Nicko (@Freindy12) reported 14 minutes ago

  This awful person @EdwardJDavey should be in jail. He also helped the corrupt @PostOffice prosecute innocent sub-postmasters and trousered over £270,000 for so doing. Monstrous.

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  Charles Shanks (@Mistorca) reported 14 minutes ago

  @ArturNadol7566 @PostOffice I was a Post Master from 2016 to 2022. The Horizon system was the worst computer system ive ever seen. Mistakes every week especially when linked to a lottery terminal. Got corrections every month. Needs complete overhaul

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  phantlers ⭐⭐ (@phantlers) reported 16 minutes ago

  After being stuck on this platform for a day or more resolving an issue with @PostOffice, and satisfactorily, I must take a bow and leave you mugs to wallow. Wrestling with pigs, I need a shower.

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  Alan ******* (@a_swinger) reported 19 minutes ago

  @PostOffice . We’ve had no mail for nearly two weeks, until today, not even junk mail. We’ve just received an important letter that was posted on 22 June, that’s two weeks after post mark date. Awful service.

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  @KarlSeed29 @PostOffice Post offices are franchised and often family run , they could have an emergency, a bereavement , lots of things could have happened , maybe cut them a bit of slack and use another office this once