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Royal Mail has a set of capabilities for spying on its employees that would be the envy (or at least equal) of any secret police force in the world. Rather than oppose this, the Communication Workers Union appears fully on board.
The Horizon IT Inquiry in London was shown slides from a presentation about the system prepared by a former Post Office manager, which claimed Alan Bates 'clearly struggled with accounting'.
Bates tells inquiry he never received a response to a letter he sent to Post Office in December 2000 raising concerns about Horizon IT system
The 70-year-old laughed as he suggested that Nick Read, who attended the inquiry today, could have sorted out remediation for his case 'there and then' while they were in the room together.
A former Post Office is to be reopened to the public for a different postal service.