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CSDI, don't stress ,if you don't need the money it should be fine long term. Shell is no minnow and many see it as an oil company, but I like to see it as an energy company, it will evolve and survive come what may. It can be frustrating seeing a rise and missing out on adding new funds but what you have is still rising. I'm ave £19.48 and have not put any more in , have held rdsb for about 7 yrs, first bought as markets were rising , probably stupid to think i'd never be in the red , but then covid came! Have enough in oil / energy though with £40k ish split between here and bp. 6% yield is still very good, sit tight and all will be good. Take care.

The drop was overdone. I'm still kicking myself for putting a sell order on for 10k at 165p when I bought at 152p. Thought i'd get a quick profit, which I did, £700 odd , then use it for something else. Pfizer vaccine news blasted through my order and was at work so didn't have time to take order off. Could have made so so much more but profit is profit and my other half is closer to getting her money back at 240p, so can't grumble. There's some money to be made out there at the moment, good luck all.

If I could buy a new Passat estate for the same price as a diesel, that would do 800 plus miles on a full charge and I could fully recharge it in 5 minutes, then i'd buy one...........I really don't think this will be possible within 10 yrs though. Until then, Im backing oil or even a hybrid, much like BP, in oil and renewables.

Why T F are we delivering things free of charge? We're a business not a charity. Let's deliver things for free while our worked to the bone posties don't get the pay rise they should have got in April!!! Can't wait to walk out the door when I retire early in just over a yr. People who run this company haven't got a clue. That's not a de ramp ( like that works on a FTSE share anyway) it's just an honest appraisal.

Pinky, they will say packets are up ...a lot ,which they are. They will say letters are as rare as hens teeth....which they most certainly are not, I read somewhere that they reckon on average each house has gone from 2 items of mail to 1 , a 50% drop! Well, i can tell you on my rural delivery , I usually have a call rate of 80-95% and very rarely is there only one letter for a house. I really don't know where they manufacture these figures from.
They will also not tell the public that deliveries are being skipped in favour of delivering tracked packets and covid tests.
All part of the ' service' .

Was the address the same size as the return address? That can sometimes be a problem. Or was it not called for and returned to sender, is there a little red 'kill off' sticker on it?

We get our packets in shrouded yorks in our 3 postcode areas at our DO. already, they're then maual sorted into individual walk halts. So the new mechanical sorting will have no change in our office? Tracked come in random unsorted though and get segregated as they are scanned in in a morning they are then further segged into isles of the office.

Have been wondering to what level the packets will be sorted, is it right down to each walk? Parcels are ridiculous at the moment, on my single rural I'm getting 2-3 full yorks of packets that don't fit in my bags so my duty is 3 full yorks Wednesday and Thursday. It's only just fitting in a partner if you get 2 or 3 really big ones you're stuffed (or the van is) lol.

My concern is that if they ditch the css letter sorting machines before they get the parcel sorting machines fully up and running it will be a disaster. Contrary to what we read about letter volumes being insignificant, any postie will tell you we still get plenty of mail and if that all has to be hand sorted like it was 10 yrs ago offices will grind to a halt. At the moment not very much office resource is attached to manual letter sorting but if that were to change there would not be enough sorters to do letters and packets. Another positive aspect of the sequence sorted mail is that literally anyone with no experience of the walk can prep the mail in (even a line manager can do it, although as a very last resort!) Even if it's your own walk ,it still speeds you up a little bit. All that will be lost and as I said, we still get a lot of mail!
Something needs to be done regarding packets though as at the moment we simply can't cope and thats without black Friday events and before we even factor in Christmas cards which are forecast to be exceptional this year. The way we are now, the business if failing, it's costing massive amounts in overtime for those willing or able to do it and when they run out of willing and able posties the mail simply does not go out , sometimes for days. This can't be acceptable or sustainable, at some point we will get big fines for delivery failures ,if we're not already. This week for me, was the most hours i've done in a week in my 20 plus yrs at royal mail, 12 hrs overtime ,just for pressure on my own delivery and not working my day off either. Do the extra parcels pay for this? I haven't got those figures to tell you but the revenue for said parcel has to pay for it to be collected, sorted, transported, sorted again and then again, then transported by me and delivered, unless they're not in, then it has to be transported back to the office, stored until the customer picks it up or requests a re delivery (free of charge) in which case it gets transported and delivered again by me (unless they're not in again, it does happen) in which case the last two steps get repeated again..............you get a picture of how much profit a parcel has to make to 'pay it's way'.
It's not as black and white as 'we are handling never seen before volumes of packets so we must be making big profits'.

It'll be tempered by the GBP rising against the USD though.

Certainty is better for markets. Don't particularly like Biden but didn't much care for big Don either .

think about it. 4/5ths of positive cases are asymptomatic so if everyone in Liverpool gets tested there's gonna be four fold increase in positive covid test results and along with it, mandatory isolation. Just who is going to deliver these tests? I would envisage Royal mail offices across the whole of the Liverpool area will be slowly grinding to a halt with staff shortages. Ours is bad enough and we are/were in tier 2. If this is rolled out nationwide, there will be no need for a lockdown , evryone will be isolating anyway!

All supermarkets have done badly in terms of sp this yr, strange as they've done well out of it. Maybe people are rotating out of defensive stocks and into cyclicals? which seem better value atm.

They obviously haven't seen how much overtime is being paid ATM. Mind you we're still probably not getting fined for all the delivery failures due to staff issues because they'll probably play the covid card. Never seen so many walks not going out, just seem bothered about the tracked, anything else can wait.

Ah ok. Beating an estimate is always good though.

Thought it just said on Bloomberg, Loss of £17m against estimates of £55m.

Plus, their target price is over 10% higher than the current SP. We'll always need bricks and concrete at least for the foreseeable future. Ibstock is well placed to privide them. This sp is a good buy.

It was a million pound a DAY not week. If I remember right

a fatal stabbing in Nice potentially terrorist linked and ezj just fine. There was a time we'd have seen a 5% drop straight away for that news.

If you're average is 474 it's gonna be a long ride though. Buying now? Absolutely, no problems with that.