Re: Worse.
As a few smaller post offices were run as franchises by owners, small individuals as a business, or family businesses, the inability and denial of the fault meant (non exhaustive and just from what I gather from news reports):
1) Managers faced sackings, criminal charges and other fines for "cash irregularities" which now appear to not have existed.
2) Managers may have used their own cash to "fix" the shortfalls, either through no other solution available, or as they were being blamed for the losses.
3) Probably many many more!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
