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Franchises, natural monopoly and the Post Office computer scandal

Helen Paul examines the Post Office scandal, which lasted from 1999 to 2015 and was a widespread miscarriage of justice, and the economic lessons that can be drawn from it

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market structures, principal-agent problem, asymmetry of information, business objectives and strategy

There has been a public postal service of one sort or another in England since the seventeenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, a government department called the General Post Office had a number of functions including telecommunications and banking. Over the following decades, these services were split apart and sold off to private companies.

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