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@ Talk2Much.

Are you talking about the pathway to change agreement, signed off last year by all the big hitters?
The agreement that said that there would be "NO" industrial action?

@ ARSENAL.
""""JB the point I was making is that Why are they being paid a Bonus ? to come to there place of employment when there paid to Work ,Ridiculous in my opinion !""""

I hate to say this, but we are on the same page. I must be mellowing.
They come to work. They still have their rotated day off, and they get a bonus.
If that is not antagonistic, i don't know what is.
Are there any managers here that can defend this payment? Or at least explain it.

Anger. Can you ask your mate Si?

@ Anger.
I'm here. Are you missing me?
Has something happened?
VESA potentially buying some more?
The NS & I carrying out due diligence? That's exciting.

I see that RMG are losing 25 million a day because of IA. Yesterday you posted that they would be saving money.
You're still getting the figures wrong.

More information reaches me about the IA taking place tomorrow.

One of my many manger friends has told me that there are 49 yorks maximum, that are to be managed for delivery tomorrow. That is over the total area and some surrounding areas of our postcode sector. All to be delivered from under the roof of our parent mail centre.
The ACF's (actual container fills) i've been told are about 60 items. I thought it was 80, so we'll use my figure. That's 4,000 measured items being delivered, or attempted, tomorrow. One third more for the whole area than my office.
All managers are expected to attend, unless they don't want too. They had a cut off time to respond to the requested attendance.

Anyway. There appear to be a lot of posters with concerns for posties jobs.
I will still be employed when this is over.
Thompson won't be.
GLS will not be sold.
VESA will not take over the company.
They will then sell their holding, quickly, thereby decimating everyone's investment.
All IMO. I could be wrong.

I do note, however, that this fantastic piece of news has had the market in a frenzy. UP 5 WHOLE PENCE!!! YAAAY!!

The positive to take from this though, is that you have been less abusive. Nice one sonny. Keep it up.

@ Anger.
You're just guessing. These are things you wish to happen, to get you out of the hole you are clearly in.
Just because Thompson says it may happen, selling GLS, it doesn't necessarily mean it will happen. He clearly views this as a thinly veiled threat, IMO. Do i care? Why would I? Does any postie care? None that i know of.
RMG own GLS. That's fact. If GLS is such a cash-cow, why would RMG sell it? Even after renationalization.

And you and the other believers have been spinning the Kretinsky rhetoric for years now. If VESA had wanted to take over RMG, and sell off GLS in the process, why hasn't it happened?
The share price was as low as 119p early 2020. So why didn't your God, DK, buy up 30% of the company then? First notification if i remember correctly was in March 2020. I could be wrong. Or was he just simply "averaging up?" Like any good billionaire would do!

Finally. Do you think the figures i gave you for my office are nonsense?
I make them applicable all over the country.
RMG will be losing money. Thereby impacting on your holding.
And i am responsible for that. In a very small way. Not that i'm happy about it, either.
Speak to your mate and ask him to get it sorted.
In line with inflation. Make sure you tell him that Anger. He should've taken the rate in February.

@ telso.

Does that include my post regarding savings made by RMG because of IA?
If it does, i'd love to know how your figures stack up.

@ Anger.""""IsleworthSpy - honestly……I couldn’t care less about where you’re going with this. The nitty gritty of each individual office and what they’re going to save or not save on each day…..I’m not interested.""""

16.57 post today.
""""Not really? The money the company will be saving on strike days might as well go in to the pockets of those keeping the business ticking over? It’s all good stuff?""""

You clearly are!

GLS will not be spun off. Why would it?
Kretinsky will not be making a move.
And some sort of a deal will be struck. Eventually. But to the total detriment of the company and the shareholders. I, however, will still have a job.
So, i have as much knowledge as you on the above three points.
Opinions only. And yours are worth exactly the same as mine.

Whinny? A noise a horse makes.
Whiny, may suit your posts better.

This board is an absolute snooze fest? You have been the most prolific (and abusive) poster on here for the past month.
Are you denigrating yourself, Anger?

Give it up. Don't forget RMG are losing 1 million pounds per day. Your investment drops daily and will only decrease as IA unfolds. Unless Mr Thompson has a change of heart.

@ Anger.
What do you think of the figures i've just posted?
This is how i see things, and it's a discussion board.
Do you accept that RMG will not be saving millions of pounds by not paying wages from the strike days?
Or more to the point, how much do you think they will be saving?
To compound what i believe to be financial misery for RMG in this short week, i've heard that one of the offices in my local area had a hire van with the top of the roof smashed in. Agency staff decided to into an underground car park, with height restrictions. He was fine, thankfully. The van wasn't.

Do you really need to be so abusive? I understand that investing can be troubling for some if it doesn't go your way, but if it affects you in this way, may i suggest that you take a short break. From posting at least.

@ Anger.
Your 70 million figure is way off the mark. I hope that your other figures regarding your investment here are not that far out.

And talking about figures:
""""Not really? The money the company will be saving on strike days might as well go in to the pockets of those keeping the business ticking over? It’s all good stuff?""""

How much do you think RMG will save per strike day? I'll give you some figures that i believe will apply to my office.

Let's assume that all measured items are attempted for delivery on Friday.

We have about 3,000 items as a top figure.
We currently have 3 agency staff who deliver about 30 items per day each. Yes, they have improved. For which they are paid 4 hours. To deliver all measured items would require 100 staff. So, 400 hours at 20 quid an hour (estimate). 8 grand to deliver these items.
Now, on a normal day, fully staffed, we would have about 42 staff in post. At 90 quid a day, less than 4 grand.
Factor in the 300 quid a week for the van hire, plus fuel and damages to vehicles, and the disparity in costs gets even higher.
I'm not suggesting that the staff attending will be anywhere near that number, but i can't see RMG turning away business either. The backlog will be phenomenal.
Business has been lost, and it will continue to be lost.
I suggest that you speak to your new BFF, Thompson, and tell him to get his head out of the sand.

If you think RMG are saving millions a day, think again.

@ Anger.
""""What’s my thoughts? Hilarious, I hope they make it £2,000 per manager if it means the company putting the middle finger up at the whinny little know it all but know f*** idiots on here lol.""""

But wouldn't this be detrimental to the company that you have invested in? The company that has no money, but suddenly finds some. A very odd response from an investor. But some of your more recent posts are getting more bizarre by the day, and abusive too. Never mind.

Did you google how many workers there are in the UK? You said 70 million. Or have you conveniently forgotten that too?

"""""One other thing. In reference to JBT's post about the managers receiving a bonus for full attendance up to the 31st October. Do you think GLS are paying this? Would you be happy if they were?""""

@ Anger. You conveniently missed this bit from my post. What are your thoughts on this. I've had it corroborated from my rep. Up to £1,500 per manager. Do you think RMG should be paying this out from GLS profits, if they can't pay posties from the very same source?

@ Anger.
But those professions are still striking, and for the same reason.
There are only 68 million people in the UK. So where do you get the 70 million workers in this country from?
The population of this country is??????
Shall we google it?

VESA is here to make money. That's the long and short of it. The way you speak, it's as if you know the great man Kretinsky. You don't. And all you have to do is look at Macys. VESA took their profit and ran. Leaving investors (much like yourself) carrying the can. While it may be different here at the moment, only time will tell who's right.

And let's not forget: The dividend could still be cancelled,(fingers crossed emoji). When is payment day? I'm not holding, so i don't actually know. But if it is, maybe it could fund some of my enhanced pay rise. And encourage me not to strike.

@ Anger.
"""Wolvesposty - Do you think you’re the only group of workers in the country that are facing the cost of living crisis and high inflation?? You’re that self absorbed that you think your ‘entitled’ (as someone quoted earlier)…..your entitled to jack s***."""

I'm not sure if you are aware, but there are several professions on strike, or balloting for it. It's called the news.

There are not 70 million workers in this country. Just thought i'd point that out.

""""I want an in line with cost of living pay rise, did I get one? No. Am I whining about it? No.""""
You accepted 4.5% if i remember correctly. So, you ate sh*t. It's your fault that you didn't get the rise that you think you are worth.

I've started, so i'll finish. GLS will not be spun off. IMO. And your love-in with Kretinsky (VESA) will end.
If i was holding here, i would not be feeling very comfortable.

One other thing. In reference to JBT's post about the managers receiving a bonus for full attendance up to the 31st October. Do you think GLS are paying this? Would you be happy if they were?

@ Dowsie.
I don't think Thompson will give "us" a pay rise. I never said he would. Statements and questions are two very different things.
I asked some questions directed at Anger.
The words "IF" and "WHY" would suggest this, in my post to Anger.

@ Anger. I didn't suggest that at all.
You keep banging on about a company that is owned by RMG. I'm assuming RMG can do what they like with any profits made by GLS.
Do the GLS workers deserve a rise? Well of course they do, if your rhetoric is to be believed. But that may eat away at your dividend. And we can't have that, can we?
Of course, they are hard workers. But us posties ain't! Right?

Apparently, RMG have decided to move 2C large parcels out of every mail centre in the country to "Atherstone".
No. I Don't get it either.
Any posties out there that can shine a light on this?
Posted in RM chat, i believe.

@ Anger
""""I’m not sure how many times this needs to be said…..the dividend is being funded by GLS."""
I'm not sure how many times this needs to be said. GLS is owned by RMG. Bought in 1999 to get a foothold in the international market. Before it was a PLC.
S, if GLS can fund your dividend, under the RMG umbrella, why can't GLS fund a pay rise, under the RMG umbrella?

@ wolvesposty.
"I believe the figures are massaged"
"If Thompson had any sense"
"One word for him is INEPT"

Stand back people. Militant in training. LOL.
You ain't after my job are you?
Or maybe, just maybe, you are trying to take the place of madasaballoon? Where are you mad?

@ wolvesposty
"""and royal mail can reduce parcel prices AND give free collections from doorsteps and saying they are losing £1m a day.... IT BEGGARS BEL;IEF"""

I actually think this a great idea, on both counts.
If someone's going to pay 3 quid to have a parcel delivered by me, i may as well take another dozen to the same address.
The same as collections. If i'm going there, i may as well pick it up.
Undercutting the competition is never a bad thing. Especially with our network.
The problem lies with how RMG management deal with these extra tasks.
And they don't know how to.
Dumping continual extra work on the posties will never work.
But as i've said in previous posts, un-measureable mail means nothing now, to RMG.
We all have a finish time.
So, maybe RMG do know how to manage this.

@ JBT.
You can never plan perfect revisions. There are standards embedded into the revision tool. Walking speed for example.
You cannot factor in a persons' speed, or how they perceive the job should be done. Coming in early for example.
The point i was trying to make is that the RMG mantra is "we don't give a s**t about unmeasured items. If the planners were worth their salt, they would have used this to achieve the savings that the hierarchy wanted.

@ JBT
I have a feeling that there no meeting will be held now.
A poster on workplace: "sort the pay deal first then address changes needed"
Thompsons reply:
"""that won't happen - we have been clear about that - sorry - last year we paid £150M for revision-based productivity in delivery - and got £0M productivity back.....

That's word for word.

What i'm wondering is, if revisions are to streamline delivery, make savings, how bad were the planners who put these revisions in?
It is there sole job to make cuts in offices. And they couldn't do it.
So, Thompson is trying to punish us posties, because of the total lack of competence from his people.

@ Dowsie.
I know how a PLC works.
You're a postie, right?
What do you think about GLS getting EVRI to deliver their parcels in the UK?
Do you know how much each item is costing them?
Do you think that this is beneficial to the shareholders?
And what is the rationale behind this?
Why are RMG hiring vehicles on a six month contract (confirmed by my manager today), only for the majority to sit there idle. £300 per week, per vehicle. Not including fuel.
Why are RMG employing agency staff (20 quid an hour?) when they are not needed? I believe this is national.
I know of 2 big contracts lost already.
Is this how a PLC should be run?
If it is, give Thompson and his managers a big fat bonus. Oh! Hang on a minute. Already given, despite missed targets that should have been hit, to trigger these bonuses.