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JB the business doesn't have to fill vacancies. They are just backfilling with agency as and when they need it. The business has said a lot of things this year to be fair hasn't it.

It's not really 9% is it? If you look beyond the misleading headline. Have you also noticed the amount of agency working in your office? It's not their fault but they are taking our jobs. If you don't think the deal is bad, my advice would be try an get redundancy, either VR or compulsory and then apply to join the agency and come back.

Nothing has been agreed. I doubt it ever will. Both parties have been arguing over which is best ginger nobs or custard creams, in countless meetings for months.

Islesworth. Nice wish list but you may as well be writing it to santa. We both know you ain't gonna get what you wish for.

These family friendly hrs? Does that mean you break off to pick your offspring up from school, Take them home sit them in front of the tv with a sandwich , then go back out and finish your walk off LOL.

The wall st journal really needs investigating for this one.

How the hell wasn't yesterday major mkt manipulation?

If/when they cut heads, they will have to very quickly replace them with others, either agency or new starts on worse contracts. Either way, they will have to replace the VR people as we cannot clear offices currently with the staff we have.

His travel week report this week ( I get an email) seems very bullish on airline travel at the moment. Worth a read. Sorry, no good at posting links

Edit, 27th November.

The legal compulsory redundancy is only slightly less than what they are offering and if you take into account anyone wanting VR after 37th November it's about the same without the £6k pro rata (ft/PT) sweetner. 39 weeks of your pensionable pay is what they are offering now as a maximum. About £26k including sweetner for a full timer with more than 16yrs time. Even if you've been there 40 yrs, that's the Max.

Here too. Loads of pkts. Walks being left in /loops brought back, (mostly) useless agency all over the place.

Goeroute was never any good. It may have worked better if in conjunction with the regular postie who did the route every day , but no consultation was ever done in my experience.

Who wrote this rns? Someone will fat fingers if they think we have had 125 days of industrial action! Their intension has now been laid out. Refuse flatly to conceed anything to the CWU, knowing how pig headed the CWU can be, thus forcing us to strike (I don't mind, it's unpaid leave) and thus as said, ending any further discussion. Job number one ticked. Run royal mail into being unprofitable, job 2 ticked. Then as stated, look at splitting royal mail and GLS . It's all been a master plan.

If he does take over I hope he digs into his cavernous pockets and buys us a new fleet of vans. Oh and some uniform. Oh and upgrade our ancient buildings. If you were to take royal mail on face value and look around your average office, you'd think we were going out of business! Posties with holes in their trousers (where there shouldn't be holes), ripped fraying shirts, hi vis stormproof jackets that are no longer high vis or stormproof or even light shower proof. The vans are even worse. I refused to take mine out as the driver seat is so bad it was sending my leg to sleep. Padding all come out right side where you get in and out multiple times a day iron bar at side of seat visible and basically not fit for purpose. I had a look round yard yesterday and 75% of the vans were exactly the same. It really is a shxt hole of a company. I'm sad to say after over 20yrs there.

When was/is the gbp/usd conversion xchange rate taken? hope it was last week not now , we need a crap gbp to maximise our lowly dividend.

JB ,at our place there was only a ban on O/T on Monday. They soon realised it wouldn't work LOL.

nomad, it's the divi holding it back and the fact its at a yr high. atm theres high div yield stocks at bottom of cycle like rio, psn etc so much to think about.

Thanks Barrie. best of luck with recouping your losses from 911....via2008.....brexit...and covid.....and the government at all stages. Iv'e held bought and sold shell for a while now collecting some good divis but now feel 25-26£ is about as high as it's gonna get if theres a global slowdown . China opening up and relaxing covid rules will help.

That's a trailing yield, it won't be that next yr. Just saying. It'll still be good though.