Post Office outages and service status in Boston, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Boston, England

Post Office signals over the past 24 hours, with local activity from Boston, England and nearby areas. The dashed baseline applies to service-wide activity, not to local outage confirmation.

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Post Office Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Flo-native (@Camtea) reported 1 minute ago

  @twasthentisnow @lily_lna @PostOffice Poor Beth. Opened her mouth and confirmed the fool

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  Margaret Gust (@jonsdottir13) reported 5 minutes ago

  @sweepybuns @lily_lna @PostOffice I addressed that in a second comment to her - read the entire thread before you decide to disparage other people - she did not make that clear. She just wanted attention - I doubt anyone said a thing to her but she looked like a woman who was going to Room 607 at the Ritz to knock on the door and asking for John! No one walks into any business with a bare back down to her waist without knowing exactly the reaction she will get.

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  LadyM (@LadyM333) reported 5 minutes ago

  @lily_lna @PostOffice As a customer you can wear anything you want. Not appropriate to work in. Don't know what the problem was. I've seen a lot worse in public.

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  Alison (@townend_alison) reported 6 minutes ago

  @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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  katrina taylor (@katrinaxtaylor) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ArturNadol7566 @PostOffice From David Davis and the ***** whois now a vicar right down through middle management they ALL ought to be stripped of their assets and put in jail.

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  NiceMarmot 🇮🇱 (@JMLoe1) reported 16 minutes ago

  @TERFSMURF_3 @lily_lna @PostOffice You can be refused entry to restaurants though, if the dress code says no casual clothing, or wear a tie - I have never known if this is legal, or if so why restaurants differ from any other retail space in this respect?

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  Guy Gamble (@GuyGamble9) reported 19 minutes ago

  @DougWahl1 You can drop it off **** THE POSTOFFICE.

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  Brandon marks (@Brandonmar68282) reported 22 minutes ago

  @lily_lna @PostOffice Just go in the shop how you like, they have no right to tell you how to dress so long as you are not naked who should give a crap. This is how it starts… or started!

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  Paul (@paul2025_paul) reported 23 minutes ago

  @twasthentisnow @lily_lna @PostOffice She's a customer you stupid woman

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  Artur Nadolny (@ArturNadol7566) reported 23 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.