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The petition on 38 Degrees was initially set up three years ago gaining just 1,000 backers at the time.
Vennells, who was the chief executive of the Post Office from 2012 to 2019, was awarded the CBE in 2019 for services to the organisation.
In 2021 she apologised for the suffering caused after 39 subpostmasters’ convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal.
The Horizon IT scandal, highlighted in the TV drama, led to hundreds of workers’ lives being ruined and some wrongfully convicted.
More than 700 branch managers were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, in what has been described as the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
Current Post Office chief executive Nick Read this week issued an apology to those affected by the scandal. He said: “As chief executive, I have met of the victims and heard first-hand many of their personal stories. Today, I reiterate and extend an apology on behalf of Post Office.”
