Post staff cash in on new counting machine The Asahi Shimbun / 26 Feb 2003
Considering the trillions of yen in savings that pass through Japanese post offices, you'd think postal officials would be able to count by now.
According to the Postal Services Agency, however, the [u]disparity between cash received [/]at the 24,700 post offices nationwide and the amount recorded on transaction receipts has totaled more than 2 billion yen annually for several years....The investigation shows the agency came up short by 1.47 billion yen in 381,845 cases in fiscal 2000, while coming out ahead by 880 million yen in 650,000 cases.
