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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  (((robingillis)))✡🦁🐇🐱 (@sweepybuns) reported 1 minute ago

  @jonsdottir13 @lily_lna @PostOffice She was a CUSTOMER, ding ****.

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  Joseph K Bennett (@JosephKBennett) reported 3 minutes ago

  @keir50443 @lily_lna @PostOffice That is by far the likeliest explanation and you know it. Postmasters / staff would not give a monkeys about a customer wearing an evening dress. Their pyjamas or a dressing gown? Maybe

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  Frank E (@Frank27588842) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Hisdude89678093 @lily_lna @PostOffice NO ITS NOT, its a nonsense address, posted bya nonsense account, posted to attract the attention of the most gullible. Why are you 'types' so stupid

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  Sudheer (@gn_sudheer9) reported 5 minutes ago

  @IndiaPostOffice — Complaint regarding incorrect delivery status. My parcel AQ073598341IN was marked as “Addressee Absent”, but the postman did not visit my address or call me. The shipment is now on hold due to an incorrect delivery update. Please verify this delivery attempt and arrange an immediate re-delivery. Kindly ensure the parcel is not returned to the sender. #IndiaPost #PostOffice #Delivery

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  Keira Connolly (@keira_con) reported 5 minutes ago

  Wow @PostOffice I see a well dressed woman who could be on her way to an event or a wedding using your services would you treat a person who spent the day on a beach who was wearing a wrap the same way. ?

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  Матчі FC BARCELONA (@fcbarcelonacatv) reported 7 minutes ago

  @twasthentisnow @lily_lna @PostOffice Not really. She called them staff, not colleagues. It is immediately clear she was a customer.

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  Roger (@roger_boz) reported 8 minutes ago

  @lily_lna @PostOffice As a customer I’d say you are fine to wear this outfit, this is the UK after all and you see people wearing less in the street (I am including men in this) but if you were an employee then they may have a point. It would really depend on the company dress code.

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  Sonja-bykergrove-Jones (@jones_sonja) reported 9 minutes ago

  @lily_lna @PostOffice I hope she told them to **** RIGHT OFF!!!!

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  Artur Nadolny (@ArturNadol7566) reported 12 minutes ago

  BINNED 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. £20 here, £60 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 £6,000 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 £6,000 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 £40,000. Fiona and her husband had paid £322,000 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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  pamelasoz (@pamelasoz) reported 15 minutes ago

  @lily_lna @PostOffice Oh dear. I thought you were an employee. You’re a customer?