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@Loutro If business wanted to use other platforms, they would have done it by now, most email is spam anyway and people get sick to death of it. Letters are alive and well I see them every single day whizzing through the ILSM's and being sorted manually so you are way off point. Any strike we undertake if RM do not bend the knee will not make RM smaller at all it didn't in 2009 and it wont this time. I have all of this all before and witnessed the mail flow back to us so it really it is not a problem. It would be a shame if they did have to suffer it is not something we want but we really do not have any alternative. We have been talking for 4 to 5 months and got nowhere and we are not going to let them destroy this institution. But we are not prepared to be the sacrificial lambs for shareholder profits and get nothing in return but a pay cut our terms and conditions and pensions savaged. Answer me this, these businesses that you talk of do they care at all about our families? I don't think so. You will the response from over 100, 000 employees on October 3rdwe cant all be wrong , can we?

@ my2penneth I couldn't care less about the share price it is of no interest to me whatsoever.

@my2penneth your response is typical and ignorant of facts. Lets deal with Phallus of our competitors first, You see we don't have any. No one delivers letters and parcels together. Only we have to deliver to every single household 6 days a week under the USO and we don't have a problem with that, but we don't have any competition at all its a nonsense. So let us deal with Hermes and DHL as you mentioned them. Both of these firms are at full pelt now they cannot cope. Sure some customers will move away but they will come back they always do. We had the same drivel from people during the 2009/10 dispute so don't bore us with that nonsense. Just to educate you how far ahead we are of what you deem competition, RM's market share of parcels is 47% our next so called rival Hermes 11% Yodel 8% and Amazon 7%. With the exception of Amazon these so called rivals will have their own customers who they will not want to jeopardise due to increased mail volumes. The last time they did take work from RM they lost customers because of their greed, they wont make that mistake again. You see there is only so much you can fit in a Vauxhall Zafira and then you have to hope it doesn't spontaneously combust. So the idea that there will be redundancy because of any action is so far removed from reality than you could ever imagine. If anything there is now such a shortfall in staff for a whole variety of reasons that RM need to recruit not let staff go. You mention the FTSE 100 and the recent demotion, so what I couldn't care less it is all garbage anyway when a companies share price can fall because some fool from North Korea fires a missile a completely stupid concept but there you are. The Government will not allow this industry to vanish that is a certainty. who are these more agile competitors you speak of? There will be plenty of our Polish colleagues taking action when the time comes I can assure you of that. Now jog on

no we haven't dropped anything and we have no intention of doing so, we deserve a pay rise it us that made this company as profitable as it is, not the shareholders. You will see from the resulting ballot result on the 3rd October the strength of feeling we have on this issue, it will be the biggest yes vote that our industry has ever given I have no doubt about that at all. That in itself will tell its own story, so you can be as trite as you want with us on here hidden behind your keyboards because quite frankly we don't care what you think. This is about postal workers being able to look after their families and retire with some dignity. The shares don't meant that much to us at all neither do the dividends if we get one great if not well so what it is not the end of the world. We never asked to be plunged into this capitalist utopia that you dream about it was forced on us. So go ahead with your predictable comments about us leaving if we aren't happy, because we wont. Other people would do the job cheaper, nah that is rubbish as well. We are dinosaurs, yeah maybe we are but you were happy buying into this share with that knowledge. Basically we don't care what you think, we never started this fight Royal Mail did perhaps when the shares drop below 330 you might want to ask them questions and not us. I am fairly certain that there are some big shareholders that are looking at this drop in price and are quite livid, but there you go.