Darling is to make an announcement at 3.30 - bit of a problem?

[DaveB]

Sent via unrecorded delivery using TNT from what I read.

Muppets.

Whats the betting that no-one gets fired for this, let alone prosecuted under Data Protection legislation.

" 'ere Shaz, what do I do about these files we wuz gonna send to the audit office?"

"Get that IT bloke to put 'em on a CD and chuck 'em in a jiffy bag, get the post room guy to send it. Be fine, innit."

[Bagpuss]

How can you send something unrecorded with TNT?

[DaveB]

How can you send something unrecorded with TNT?

For business users they run a straightfoward post service just like Royal Mail. Instead of RM picking up your post from you some chav in a TNT van does it instead.

You only get the recorded service if you specifically ask for it or are a private individual wanting to send summat by courier.

edit: Turns out TNT actually run the entire internal mail service for HMRC.

"Contrary to all HMRC standing proceedures two password protected discs containing a full copy of HMRC's entire data in relation to the payment of child benefit was sent to the National Audit Office by HMRC's internal postal system operated by the courier TNT.

"The package was not recorded or registered."

[wendigo100]

Using TNT to deliver secret files? No wonder it blew up in their faces.

[To BI or not to BI?]

Do the Germans have a word for schadenfreude?

Extermination?

[BoredBloke]

Newsnight should be good tonight.

[moorfield]

Newsnight should be good tonight.

Indeed. It's just going from bad to worse for Captain Darling.

[The Master]

Bloody hell, bad luck. I lost mine in a move. My favourites were Dr Strange and Thor.

I liked The Defenders, but mainly because Dr Strange was in it. Ghost Rider and Moon Knight were well thumbed as well.

[snaw]

Anyone else think that it's ever so slightly odd to be sending a data disk via snailmail?

Makes you worry that maybe they haven't quite got this whole information age thing, in which case WTF are they doing having responsibility for this kind of information?

Monumentally stupid and incompetent doesn't come close to describing this.

[TheFaQQer]

Indeed. It's just going from bad to worse for Captain Darling.

And to think, he used to be regarded as a safe pair of hands.

Which is why he gets all the departments that are in trouble - transport, for example.