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Heard a programme on radio 4 a couple of weeks ago speculating that it was not 1 but 2 asteroid strikes which wiped out the dinosaurs
Boeing
I hope you are not in the ****pit of any flight I am on! like myself I would look at some fixed term bonds-you can get 3.5p/c now.
Am I the only one reflecting on Liz truss -the UK's new ceo-and her 'delivery, delivery,delivery' tagline?
Oli
Pole?....I thought he was Czech. In fact he's very close to Czech -mate on this one......
Anger ,Mike1974, isleworth, wolves
I have not received a letter for 3 weeks.
The deaf dog has been kicked until it bit and the dead letters horse has been flogged now for a decade+. When the dust settles after this, all that will be left will be GLS and a letter operation that will be carried out by piecework leaflet takers for 1.7p an item. These will be unsalaried unpensioned and if they slip on an icy pavement they will get no sick pay. Still they may get a pushbike and a massive box with 'royalmaileroo' on it
Wolves :Generations of postal workers have built and defended this great postal service and the terms and conditions for postal workers, it’s our time to stand again.
I recall the same sentiment being expressed more succinctly by Mr pullinger during an episode in the Back tenure when he shouted at a press conference 'we built this company and we'll be the ones to smash it to pieces'
Tygra - you make some salient points 'the robots are coming to monitor your every move soon too.'
Royal mail has always had the highest 'security' and its own police force (REAL spies) to protect the public and it's property from the likes of Dick Turpin and Ronnie Biggs. Rest assured staff are monitored. Has anyone ever noticed the logo is a cruciform?
Sos arsenal I was addressing the numerous posts advocating renationalisation
Would any future UK government really want royal mail on its hands again?the organisation which brought the entire (pre digital) economic commerce of great Britain and it's territories and dominions to a standstill on a few occasions over the last 50 years(and a lot more locally). Hence, Anger, rmgs opposite of loved status in the city....and the palace of Westminster (even though postal correspondence is nowhere near as important or even necessary now and is mostly advertising
Is seniority factored down pro rata for part time rmg staff?
(Im carrying a sign stating RMG -THE END IS NIGH) sleworthspy . Nobody else may be willing to take the USO on in the ailing letters business, but you do understand that if a strike goes ahead ALL the boomtime parcel traffic will be simply transferred by customers to any one of the dozen other carriers who already carry out a quasi-universal service (maybe 90percent) 7 days a week voluntarily and happily.
What or who you are spying on is your own business (you may even be a double 0!) but rest assured that as an rmg employee you are Isleworthspiedupon. If those disappointed parcel customers do not return, office revisions will have to start ..your duty will have to be extended (maybe doubled) because time spent on the doorstep is drastically reduced..more absorption ....fewer jobs... fewer offices..fewer cwu members...fewer vans... royal mail bicycles make a comeback... . This may be your vision of a re-invented royal mail but is not the company's and emphatically not the vision of your union leaders.
JBTHISTLE for CEO!
I liked the nice Canadian lady CEO but when she retired someone thought it was a great idea to install a German in conjunction with a far left British Union and for some reason that arrangement didn't gel..so yes get a sturdy Brit in "someone we can work with"..oh ,we seem to have encountered one or two hurdles....hey, does anyone know of a Czechoslovakian pharaoh that can sort it?
Teslo I hope you are right and we do go north of 5 again for a solid reason because my 10 year reconnaissance of rmg plc is coming to an end and I would leave the next 500 years of instability to teslo and the daytraders (a good name for a band!). The investing you describe is not for me and probably not for the majority of the hundreds of thousands of ordinary holders who read this (BTW this is not a criticism). It reminds me of my youth playing space invaders, eyes on stalks, tongue between lips, fingers going ten to the dozen and not seeing daylight for days.
Well that last comment bought this erudite and often entertaining board to a stand still. I've been a shareholder from day one-my own thoughts at this stage of the game? Bud Fox( in Wall Street): "Howard the jerk DK-ed me". Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistol)"Did you ever feel cheated?"