They wanted to replace it, but the Post Office is effectively bankrupt, so they can’t afford to. They’ve asked the government for something like £250m for a new system, but the government’s got enough to worry about sorting out the old one.
Maybe so, but they should still be liable for providing a system that didn’t work. They should pay back the money they received for providing a defective product at the very least.
Just use nine words to them, 'cough up or we won't be using you again'. Apparently Fujitsu have had over six billion quid from taxpayers, on other projects, since this scandal started, they might be minded to cough.
The way things are heading, I don't think there's much chance of them getting away with this, it's going to cost them significantly somewhere down the line.
The major shareholders are pretty much all Japanese, I don't think it's going to help them in this case.
It's common practice for large organisations to outsource IT support and then be held to ridiculously long contracts. We did this at BAE to a company called CSC, however in the early days Brough used its own bespoke systems separate to other sites until, inevitably, we had to migrate onto company wide mainframe systems. It was my experience that the local BAE software engineers were always far cleverer than the remote help desk CSC engineers and our inhouse guys could develop local software and work arounds to suite our own factory and project needs, we were a large 4K site though not a village post office.
Absolutely. That’s the ‘power of the market’ for them! Of course given that compensation from Fujitsu has being getting discussed in Parliament since 2021 at the very least. (see link below, which is an interesting read, but I’d just save as a pdf and search for ‘Fujitsu’) and there are huge Govt links to Fujitsu (Patel recently spoke at their conference, Gillian Keegan is married to their current or previous UK CEO, and the Chair of Fujitsu, who coincidentally donated £376k to the Tory party, was made a CBE and a member of the UK Health Security Agency, with Health being the biggest market for Govt contracts…I wouldn’t hold my breath! https://hansard.parliament.uk/pdf/commons/2021-05-19
Just go to data point three and waggle a cotton bud in it to clean it out, or a paper clip if a bud is too big. Then give it a good blow. That should sort it out
Michael Keegan was only Chief Exec at Fujitsu for a year and two months (2013/2014), he now works for the government handling computer systems for the Ministry of Defence. The £376k was nothing to do with him (the donation was made by Simon Blagden, who was at Fujitsu from 2005 to 2019, though the donations were over ten years and were from organisations he has links to, rather than being his donations). He was made a CBE in 1997, for services to UK export, before he'd donated anything.
I turned it off and back on again five times, I can't believe that didn't resolve it, I though that worked for all faults.
I didn’t say Michael Keegan the previous CEO had made a donation, I said the Chair had. My point was there are a lot of links, over many years (I merely pointed out a few I was aware of)
Yes. After the fourth attempt, I gave it a whack as well, even that didn't work. It cost me a fortune when I got it, but it's an antique now and I'm surprised it's lasted as long as it has. We no longer use it for most of things it was built for, but it was useful for collating forward orders, which our new accounting system can't do. I think it's probably time it went to the tip. Anyone know of a system that can be used just for recording forward orders? (there's plenty of stock control systems out there, that do things I don't need, but I can't find anything you can use just to record future orders)
If you fancy being ever more infuriated about how the Post Office deliberately tried to keep compensation down even when they knew they’d done wrong then have a read of this thread. If you have high blood pressure then I’d steer well clear. https://x.com/danneidle/status/1745378990246736177?s=46&t=DAxwWj15XaMBwCrrY9gKFQ
