Member Info for IsleworthSpy

@ JBT.
An excellent idea.
Let's just hope that the security around these items and the promise of delivery is adhered to.
If what i see after IA days is anything to go by, NOT A CHANCE!
But Royal Mail will still take the money and make promises that cannot or will not be fulfilled.

@ Tygra.
Job and finish. Those three magic words could make all things better for Royal Mail.

So, let's look at what your postie cousin does.

Doesn't take a break? 40 minutes.
Comes in early? let's say 20 minutes.
Runs around on delivery, overweight bag on shoulder, never uses a trolley? Let's say 40 minutes.
Finishing time? Probably an hour before his scheduled finishing time?
So, your cousin in all probability is giving Royal Mail 1hr 40 minutes, and takes back 1 hour.
In the current climate, who is the most stupid here? Your cousin or Royal Mail?

@ Dowsie.
Aaaah. Lapsing.
That fantastic idea where people are given extra work to fill up their scheduled hours.
While this worked perfectly for the runners, who were still allowed to finish early, see above, it didn't work for everyone.
Now with SISO, there is no job and finish, you have no runners, and therefore you have no lapsing.
To mitigate this, table-top revisions are the order of the day. Less staff in post, but more daily failures on more walks.

@ Maximas1
And when exactly is D..K going to start buying again?
Now? When it's lower? Certainly not at the elevated price you need and crave. Why would he?
He could get his old lady to buy millions of shares. Any family member or friend. 2 quid offer, all voted through.

Ducks in a line!
I'll keep striking and let D..K in much cheaper.
Quack quack!!

"incite"???? What happened there?
Insight. LOL.

@ InvestorJohn
Your post got lost amidst all the acrimony.
I 100% agree with you.
As much as i think that this offer is pathetic, it should be down to the members to decide.
Oddly enough, i think the majority will only see the pay rise and not the other bits associated with it. That's where reps et al, should give their incite into this offer
If, however, the vote is for acceptance, then i will fall in line. Until i leave.

@ Maximas1
""""VESA will not pay 430p per share if they wish to take-over IDS, unless the price is much higher.

Then you don’t get your hands on the company…"""

So, D..K doesn't get his hands on the company because he's trying to get it on the cheap. Which would leave shareholders out of pocket.
He then sells his shares because he's rich and he can, decimating the share price. Leaving shareholders out of pocket.

When you say "ducks in line" i assume that you mean shareholders?
And you are aware that you have your vowels mixed up. Easy mistake. They are next to each other on the keyboard.

@ HeresHopin.
"""Now planning to strike on Black Friday and Cyber Monday instead. Presumably they are looking to win the support of the public."""
The public and the senders have heard of EVRI, Yodel etc i imagine.
RM is such a sh*t company now, because of the militant workforce, why would anyone use us?

@ Anger.
""""430p a share for two businesses that could potentially be worth double that 10 years from now……I’d call that a steal personally.""""

Or 430p per share for 2 businesses that are currently worth 2 quid per share. Unless this rises dramatically, and D..K buys the remaining %age below 430p, and the share price being well north of that, that will be the only time you may get what you wish.

VESA will not pay 430p per share if they wish to take-over IDS, unless the price is much higher.

@ Anger.
I am not disputing what you are posting.

You are forever posting about D..K being some sort of investment guru. If this is the case, (and i 'm not disagreeing) why would he put in a takeover bid at over 100% of the current price?

I'll ask you again. """"do you seriously expect any take-over price to be anywhere near that?""" 430p that is.
If D..K goes up to 30% before the end of January, and puts in a bid for 430p+, that would make him some sort of idiot. IMO.

@ simx.
Are you saying that the market is undervaluing IDS by 2 Billion pounds, based on GLS?
I'm not sure if any value is attributed to RM. Using the current market cap i'd suggest that's it valued at - 2 Billion pounds, if your 3-4 Billion figure is correct.
For euros read pounds.

@ Anger.
I know all this.
I asked this question
""""do you seriously expect any take-over price to be anywhere near that? That's assuming that VESA want to actually take the company over!"""

Just a quick answer. Yes or no?
I'll answer for you. NO!!!!
Is that simple enough for you?
Or would you like to disagree?

@ Anger.
You speak as if you know him. I'm going to assume you don't. But i do not expect D..K to take out a front page advert in The News of the World saying, "I'm going to buy millions of shares in IDS tomorrow".

And while i bow to your superior knowledge of Vesa's highest buy in price in the past 12 months, do you seriously expect any take-over price to be anywhere near that? That's assuming that VESA want to actually take the company over!
What's to stop Vesa dropping shares by the millions, crashing the share price, and then buying back in at a much lower level?
Anyone thinking of fanciful figures for a take-over bid, is deluded.
In my opinion.

@ Redceo.
I'm not planning on staying on.
The new finishing times do not align with my life outside of RM.
As soon as these are implemented, and set in stone, i'll be walking. I cannot see any way around it, despite what Simon says.
The ironic thing is, that i will be giving Thompson exactly what he wants. And there are quite a few of us.
Shameful, really.

@ Anger.
"""You’re talking like you have a right to access the companies cash reserves……you don’t. It just emphasises the reason why the company is taking the stance that it is."""

Not at all.
But I do have access to his written word. As do you, and many others here.
You choose to believe what says, I choose not to.
He said on many occasions there was no more money. He lied.
End of story.
Why should anyone believe what he says now? That includes shareholders.
His inability to deliver going forward, resolve problems past, present and future, and still take bonuses for him and the rest of the white-collar brigade, for NOT meeting targets, FAILURE, tells me he isn't quite up to the job.
Only in my opinion.

@ Anger.
Let's put it another way.
RM has money. Albeit emergency money, as you would call it.
Si has used that money to offer us blue collar workers an enhanced pay rise.
That emergency money was there before. And it was probably a bigger pile than before IA.
So why has this money now become available, if it wasn't before?

@ Redceo.
Surely now that the deity that is Daniel Kretinsky, has been given the green light to buy over 25%, i'm not sure that pain will be something the shareholders will experience.
That's if you believe what is written here. He'll be buying the company out for many multiples of the current price.
Hmmmm?

And as for posties?
I've said it many times, i'll still have a job if i want it. And there will be no redundancies unless they are voluntary.
As for all the proposed changes, if i don't like what i see, i'll leave.

@ Anger.
As rational as that may be, why didn't Si say as much?
At the end of the day, the money fairy has magically appeared and wants to give us some pennies.
What a load of nonsense. As is the rest of his offer.
Roll on the 17th. I really cannot wait to see the difference between the trading statement on 14th October and H1 results.

@ Redceo.
LOL.
If they did, I wonder if they used their bonuses? Or maybe they did some overtime?

@ hurtsparrow.
These revisions will go ahead, with or without the union's agreement.
10% of duties will be lost. Absorbed by the remaining duties and if you can't complete, then fail.

This is the bit i like from the offer regarding Sunday working:
And to begin with, as we develop this new business for RM, there won't be much Sunday working, AND SO I CAN PROMISE YOU THIS, we will rely on volunteers.
PROMISE YOU???? The man should be on stage.

And this, regarding later finish times:
We understand that this can be a problem for some people, especially those with school-aged children, so we are going to put in place a process to understand individual needs, and have a range of family friendly options, with an earlier duty finish time, wherever that is operationally practical.
Okay Si. You must know what this process is, so tell us. NOW!

And this regarding later start times:
We have also further revised out planned start times, so that the last letter delivery times in the vast majority of offices will be before 5pm.
So later than before. Let's say 4.45pm last letter. That means a start time of 9.15am on a 7hr 30-minute day.

What a total load of garbage!

And regarding the extra 3.5% this year. It wasn't that long ago that there was no more money in the pot. Who posted that each 1% would cost the company £40 Million per year in people costs? Anger, was it you? That's £70 Million for the next 6 months. But there was no more cash. That's what we are constantly being told.

I can't wait for the 17th now. What are the chances that all of a sudden, despite IA, the company has had a stellar turn around.
Where else could the money have come from?