More faulty UK Post Office IT wrecks lives
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The royals don't keep going because their subjects think they're fallible.
> it’s the _royal_ post office
No it’s not. Perhaps you have confused the Post Office with Royal Mail.
> The royals don't keep going because their subjects think they're fallible.
The hysteria about Diana suggests otherwise.
This is also quite irrelevant. Attitudes to arms-length public bodies are not in fact parasitic on attitudes to the royal family.
On this logic, HM Treasury would be regarded as infallible. It isn’t. Britain has fiscal debates like everywhere else.
Problem is that all that is done in the UK, but tests cover all the wrong things and assert wrong values, and these "experienced" devs are the devs that usually pushed for wrong tests and practices. Guaranteed the post office had unit tests, but they tested everything the wrong way. Lack of skill and passion can't be compensated by practice. If everyones goes to their office to churn out features and clock in then you end up with crap.
The Post Office, HMRC, NHS, Home Office, DVSA, DVLA, Ofstead, all suffer from similar issues, as do private entities.
But at least they are all hybrid or on site so they can pretend to work by doing cheap talk and playing petty politics. British made software is like Soviet made cars.