Have you applied for Royal Mail shares ?

[Tricky Dicky]

Are you allowed to take your cat with you or does Health and Safety decree that he has to stay at home.

And does the cat have to be black and white, is that not feline racism ?

 

[Bognor Bystander]

My share application is in the post

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Let's have a think. Do I post letters or write emails? Do I do my banking online or pay extra for a bill to be posted? If I need something delivered I pay for special delivery.

I won't be buying shares because I don't use the post service. I honestly don't think it's a modern business.

Whilst that maybe true, floatations of ex gov business are defined by how many shares are sold not how much money the taxpayer has lost on a business being undervalued (bizarrely). On that basis I'm in

 

[Brian Fantana]

Let's have a think. Do I post letters or write emails? Do I do my banking online or pay extra for a bill to be posted? If I need something delivered I pay for special delivery.

I won't be buying shares because I don't use the post service. I honestly don't think it's a modern business.

You wouldn't be buying shares in a letters business, though. You'd be buying shares in predominantly a parcels business, which also delivers the odd letter.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Letter sales falling; poor labour relations; lack of modernisation; where is the money for dividends going to come from; inevitable Government or Wathdog interference....

Not likely!

Lack of modernisation? In 2008 Royal Mail invested in about 565 brand new sequence sorting machines for mailcentres and delivery offices around the whole UK. If that isn't modernisation then I don't know what is.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

I will take my free ones as an employee of Royal Mail. The public like to moan about the posties but don't realise what a great service they are going to lose. Very
sad time, even Thatcher who I will always hate with passion decided that Royal Mail was the Queens service and should not be sold off.

100% this.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Hell yes, I'm in big for this one. The corporate prize here is massive, years of union intransigence and blocking modernisation and anything remotely looking like productivity improvements.

Under private ownership with proper capital funding this business has the potential to properly compete on the UK and world stage. Those union lead boots will become a thing of the past when the people that work for Royal Mail realise how good their propsects are in the new world, both as individuals, and as powerful business.

Do you actually know anything about what has gone on in Royal Mail since 2000?

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Could well be worth a try,in view of the fact that the unions will not be involved in the new business ,they held up progress to modernise for years and when new machinery was eventually introduced it was not unknown for it to be damaged overnight.
A John Lewis type setup could well produce a thriving and successful firm.

Are you actually accusing postal workers of sabotaging newly installed mail sorting machines?

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Not without an Act of Parliament to revise or abolish the USO.

It doesn't require an Act of Parliament - all that is required is for a Statutory Instrument to be passed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statut...liamentary_control_over_Statutory_Instruments

http://saveourroyalmail.org/2013/09...sation-service-protections-exposed-as-flimsy/

 

[BLOCK F]

Yup,I have applied for some to put into my SIPP fund.
Capital growth may be a bit hesitant ,but the divis will be good.

 

[Brian Fantana]

It doesn't require an Act of Parliament - all that is required is for a Statutory Instrument to be passed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statut...liamentary_control_over_Statutory_Instruments

http://saveourroyalmail.org/2013/09...sation-service-protections-exposed-as-flimsy/

Regardless of exactly what is required, it is not something that the Government would undertake likely. Secondly, there shouldn't be the need for it if Ofcom do their job as industry regulator properly.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

email and the web could be the making of RM. Who's going the deliver all the stuff ordered over the web? So much scope for efficiencies at RM makes it tempting

DPD, Yodel, TNT, DHL, UK Mail, Fed-Ex, UPS, Hermes, Parcelforce, Parceline, Interlink express.............

How are Royal Mail workers pushing around trolleys full of mail going to deliver the quantities of parcels needed to make it a thriving business? especially when there are all ready hundreds of parcel couriers services out there.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Double post

 

[Stat Brother]

DPD, Yodel, TNT, DHL, UK Mail, Fed-Ex, UPS, Hermes, Parcelforce, Parceline, Interlink express.............

How are Royal Mail workers pushing around trolleys full of mail going to deliver the quantities of parcels needed to make it a thriving business? especially when there are all ready hundreds of parcel couriers services out there.

The bulk of the workforce are in or will have vans.

2 members of staff, 2 rounds, all the packets.

Even I had some reservations about the new working practices, but 18 months in and it works well.

We wouldn't be able to do the job now, on bikes.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Yes

 

[Stat Brother]

Do you actually know anything about what has gone on in Royal Mail since 2000?

There does seem to be an awful lot of FACTS being written by people who clearly have no idea what's going on with RM.

 

[fat old seagull]

Simply on a matter of my principles (which aren't astronomically high) NO !

I remember every time this has happened the greedy dive in and buy cheap shares, flog them on and in no time at all the Post Office will be in foreign hand like all our previously sold utilities , and we'll be paying a quid to sent a burfday card.

I'd sooner give my money to the bookie or lady of the night

 

[BLOCK F]

Simply on a matter of my principles (which aren't astronomically high) NO !

I remember every time this has happened the greedy dive in and buy cheap shares, flog them on and in no time at all the Post Office will be in foreign hand like all our previously sold utilities , and we'll be paying a quid to sent a burfday card.

I'd sooner give my money to the bookie or lady of the night

Hope you don't pay into a pension F.O.G.,because you may well find that some Royal Mail shares find their way in there someday,along with such nasty companies as Centrica!

 

[fat old seagull]

Hope you don't pay into a pension F.O.G.,because you may well find that some Royal Mail shares find their way in there someday,along with such nasty companies as Centrica!

LOL .... Finished paying in, taking out now mate.

 

[TheJasperCo]

I would consider it, but the shares would probably get lost in the post.