Post Office systems down after outage hits branches

An outage has taken down Post Office systems, including at branches across the UK.

People trying to send out parcels today might run into trouble after reports of a glitch affecting the Post Office this afternoon.

Outage reports for the Post Office shot up shortly before 3pm, according to DownDetector’s tracker.

Most of the problems were about a ‘total blackout,’ while others indicated there was a problem with the internet connection.

Post Office said: ‘We’re aware of an outage impacting our branches. The issue is being worked on and things should be back to normal later this afternoon. Thanks for your patience.’

It is not known yet what has caused the outage.

Frustrated customers took to social media after running into trouble at their local branch.

One woman said she walked ’25 mins to the Post Office in flip flops for them to tell me the system is down & come back tomorrow.’

It comes after a spate of high-profile cyber incidents affecting the M&S and Co-op.

M&S online orders were back in action six weeks after the cyber attack in April, which cost the company £300 million.

Co-op admitted yesterday that all 6.5 million people on its membership scheme had details stolen in the hack, which left some branch shelves empty.

Metro approached the Post Office for a comment.

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