🤦 It looks like I missed the bit on the #RoyalMail website where it says they'll charge £0.16 if you drop off "Royal Mail Tracked 24" at the #PostOffice rather than booking a free collection 🙄 .

Late Night Vibes from this 1907 Boston postcard featuring the United States Post Office and Sub-Treasury Building. Demolished in 1929.
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#boston #nighttime #postcard #postoffice #ephemera #vintage #architecture #history @universalhub

One of my favorite art projects in the area. I can't believe it's been running for 10 years and that Nakata-san is now 89!!!

(the article focuses on writing to dead people, but the way I understand the project, it's really about writing to whoever you can't actually write to - people who are gone from your life in general)

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14974295

#Japan #art #Setouchi #ArtSetouchi #writing #PostOffice #letters

Random #Tomintoul nostalgia

"Nice to handle
Nice to hold
If you break it
Consider it sold"

Sticker in the old #JimmyRoss days in the #PostOffice. Next to racks of souvenirs made of pottery/glass anything that would make a satisfying smash when dropped onto hard floors.

Finished my second #AHAReads of the summer, Women of the Post by @joshundasanders. It’s my historical fiction read, part of my ongoing quest to read anything about the #PostOffice, and a rare moment when I actually keep up with something brand-new. The 6888th is finally getting attention for its work during World War II as Sanders brings to life the African-American women who sorted hundreds of thousands of pieces of delayed mail between the European front and the United States. @AHAHistorians

TBC, public ownership as a government department or quasi-state entity like the #PostOffice. Or at the least have a subsidized gov entity in the market if we aren't going to regulate them.

The #PostOffice IT scandal continues to offer opportunities for outrage at the treatment of innocent sub-postmasters, the impunity of the managers & IT firms involved and the general lack of interest in failures in the #ruleoflaw - this is an issue that goes to the heart of so much that is wrong in a country where the interests of #corporations outweigh social justice (or any justice for that matter)!

A sad & sorry take well explored here by Marina Hyde

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/post-office-scandal-cover-up-justice

The #PostOffice #Horizon scandal is NOT OVER until all those who were in charge in Fujitsu and Post Office face charges and spend time in prison.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/post-office-scandal-cover-up-justice

Guardian opinion piece on the UK #post #office scandal, by Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/post-office-scandal-cover-up-justice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
'in which totally innocent subpostmasters, the very backbone of villages and communities, were turned into criminals to cover up the fact that the Post Office’s Horizon computer system didn’t work properly. Each was told by the #PostOffice that no one else had any problems with the system. Vast sums were effectively looted from them to make up accounting shortfalls, before they were prosecuted anyway'

Marina Hyde doing what she does best...

"After 20 years, here’s why the #PostOffice scandal is special: the cover-up is happening in plain sight"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/post-office-scandal-cover-up-justice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The Post Office cover-up is still under way. The inquiry is hearing evidence, except on the days it can’t, because the Post Office is continually failing to hand over evidence … like the discovery of a document proving that Post Office investigators were ordered to group suspected subpostmasters in racial categories such as “negroid types” and “dark-skinned European types”. This advice was still in use in 2011.
#PostOffice #scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/post-office-scandal-cover-up-justice

After 20 years, here’s why the #PostOfficeScandal is special: the #CoverUp is happening in plain sight

People whose lives were destroyed deserve #justice. And those responsible are contriving to make sure they don’t get it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/post-office-scandal-cover-up-justice #FujitsuScandal #Fujitsu #PO #PostOfficeHorizon #Horizon #PostOffice

#steelcon 2023 videos are starting to appear: https://www.youtube.com/@SteelConSheffield/videos Make sure you watch the fuckup that is the #postoffice #horizon #scandal on there, it's very interesting, but depressing.

Not really a surprise, is it, to see just how much the Post Office Department during World War I was just firmly opposed to anything and everything Emma Goldman said, published, or mailed. #PostOffice

I only have a few days on this trip to explore Record Group 28 (#PostOffice records, of course), so we’ll see how this goes. But it’s very exciting these days to get any time at all in for research.

#steelcon is over, it was worth a trip:

There was a good talk about the #postoffice #horizon scandal, look out for the drama coming soon: https://www.itv.com/presscentre/presscentre/presscentre/media-releases/cast-update-new-itv-drama-mr-bates-vs-post-office, and the book sounds good: https://bathpublishing.com/products/the-great-post-office-scandal.

@khae talked about non-IT "denials of service".

@ChrisTruncer talked about 2 #ransomware groups catching the low-hanging fruit.

Ian Thornton-Trump gave an entertaining talk about "good" #infosec

Full schedule of what happened here: https://www.steelcon.info/the-event/talk-schedule/

In things you couldn’t make up the #PostOffice are blaming the non-disclosure of their nasty little racial profiling scheme, on the disclosure software.
If you are in #projectmanagement & you are unfamiliar with the #PostOffice scandal see below, an egregious failure of project management that saw users actually imprisoned, a stain on all of us. Be better, people

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366538096/Post-Office-scandal-cover-up-a-dark-chapter-in-government-corporate-and-legal-history

Blanking DMV. I'm there ten till four, they close at five. They could let me in, keep me waiting an hour, and still close on time. But they won't even let me in. Typical New York. Wants to quit early.
#DMV #Department of #Motor #Vehicles #NYC #NewYorkCity #services #suck | #PostOffice #LOL #phone #rings for #hours...

I’m in the midst of planning a research trip for the #PostOffice project and I keep finding myself wanting to do a deep dive on the pneumatic tube delivery system the Post Office attempted in the early twentieth century. #histodons

#ForeverStamp Prices Are Going Up
https://themessenger.com/business/forever-stamp-prices-are-going-up
#USPS #postoffice