Postmasters to join Post Office board | Business

Two serving postmasters will join the board of the Post Office as it seeks to repair relations with local managers and move on from the IT scandal that led to some being wrongly imprisoned.

The state-owned enterprise will appoint two new non-executive directors in the spring, in a move that it hailed as a “progressive” step to ensure that the views of its 8,000 postmasters are “directly reflected” at the top.

An industry-led committee will supervise the selections, which begin with a four-week application process before a shortlist of candidates is put to a vote.

The Post Office has more than 11,500 branches, with 4,000 open every day. Its network dates back centuries and was formally separated from the Royal Mail a decade ago, ahead