Thousands of post offices are either being sold or axed under secret plans to streamline the scandal-hit business, campaigners believe. It is being claimed that authorities want to offload up to 6,000 loss-making branches and turn the Post Office into a John Lewis-style 'mutual' company.
This will help to draw a line under the IT fiasco that saw thousands of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of stealing from their branches. Due to this, the taxpayer is left with a bill of up to £1 billion in compensation and legal fees and the Post Office looking for new ways to secure its future.
Ex-postmistress Sally Stringer who ran a post office in Beckford, Gloucs, for 20 years, said she was stunned when officials discussed scaling down the state-owned network. She added that such closures would be wrong.
