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UK Post Office burns 31M pounds on failed cloud migration

by galenmarchetti on 1/8/24, 4:41 PM with 5 comments

• by miohtama on 1/8/24, 10:03 PM

  British hits differently

  > Modernising complex legacy systems is a fraught business, but writing off £31 million in a year for getting it wrong, whilst continually funnelling tens of millions to the software provider that helped co-deliver a colossal miscarriage of justice is, arguably, a poor look for all concerned.

• by vr46 on 1/9/24, 8:36 AM

  All the people who took bonuses while fraudulently prosecuting people ought to be shaken upside-down until the entire bonus has been dislodged from their wallets.

  My father was a subpostmaster decades ago and I am gobsmacked at how a public service has been turned into a piggy bank for a rotating cast of licenced bandits.

• by more_corn on 1/9/24, 12:23 AM

  I somehow missed the “UK” part before “post office” and thought at first they’d burned 31M lbs of mail.