Just a thought. Around 700 sub-postmasters were prosecuted, but there's around eleven thousand sub post
>> offices. Was everyone affected, or was it just a minority?
Part of the problem I suspect is that embezzlement by sub-postmasters was far from unknown problem even in the days of manual accounting. Indeed the new system was no doubt seen as away to combat such fraud. The fact that the new system apparently confirmed such theft on a massive scale merely confirmed management suspicions with no one prepared to look deeper.
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