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JMC66 - You're giving the CWU far too much respect if you think they're capable of that level of insight and joined up forward thinking.
The CWU don't even act in the best interests of their own membership, never mind the business that provides that membership with their living... all the CWU is interested in is looking after itself as money making, jobs for the boys, expenses claiming entity.

It's all well and good talking about good buying opportunities but this share consistently fails to achieve its supposed true and fair value... every time it comes remotely close after a very long and very steady crawl upwards the shorts target it and drive it back down.
In short it spends far more time being in "good buying" territory and precious little time in "good selling" territory!

Eastsidemassive - I'm not entirely sure what point you're attempting to make but RMG definitely aren't saddled with the the 6 day USO i it's current form with absolutely no option to reduce it or for that matter drop it altogether.

A reduction in the 6 day obligation would require agreement from ofcom and Parliament to implement but it's certainly doable, in fact I believe RMG could simply abandon their commitment to the USO entirely if they so chose to although it would mean losing certain tax breaks which it currently attracts.

For a long time now the CWU has been more interested in looking after itself and preserving it's own lucrative income stream rather than acting in the best interests of its members and the business that employs them.

For instance the CWU are and will remain to be vehemently opposed to any potential reduction in the 6 day USO because "job losses" even though there are huge numbers of posties who would willingly accept even modest redundancy packages and I suspect any redundancy offering would be massively over subscribed.
Yet the CWU will always oppose a reduction in the USO purely because it would result in a reduction in their own subscription income from a reduced workforce even though a USO reduction would result in greater efficiency, increased profitability and a more secure future for the business and it's employees.

Davey - You might want (or possibly not want) to take a look at what's happened to the RMG share price ever since the company embarked on a £200m buyback!

JB - I wouldn't bother trying to get a reasoned and impartial analysis from Dan, he's always just been a deramping doombot with a short position

It's ridiculous how such blatant corruption is allowed, shorts buying up the very shares they're shorting proves beyond doubt that they're manipulating the price downward for their advantage.

How come insider trading or boiler room pump n' dumps are illegal and heavily regulated and yet it's perfectly acceptable to manipulate a stocks price down?

asimpleinvestor - I don't think you can blame yourself for supposedly 'taking your eye off the ball' and ending up underwater with your current holding.
You bought at a price which was actually still below where all the broker ratings (for what they're worth) and the business fundamentals suggest it should be at.
Nobody can predict when or where the shorters and their market maker accomplices are going to make a concerted effort to use their corrupt methods of manipulation to target a stock and drive it's price down.

... For tomorrow we die?

(Well, Monday)

Angerz - As you say a market cap of around £2.7bn is ridiculous, I suspect just the property that Royal Mail owns is worth close to that alone, never mind the the value of the actual business as a cash generative going concern.

Ebygum - If you consider the Royal Mail workforce to be underpaid, poverty stricken and downtrodden with their current pay levels and T&C's then I can't imagine what your opinion must be of how the mostly gig economy and 'Self employed' workers are treated by other parcel delivery firms.

Veteran - Yet still Royal Mail has some of the cheapest postage rates in Europe, it might be best if you stick to a subject you're familiar with.

Let's hope this is due to the efficiencies that will be delivered from the soon to be operational automated parcel hubs gaining a bigger share of the market.... a win for all concerned, customers and investors alike.

Angerz - Yep lots of quality UK stocks are seriously undervalued, again mainly due to the corrupt activities that short sellers are able to engage in when operating in the UK stock market.
Even though people say the US is the ultimate example of unbridled Capitalism even they have stricter regulations in place to prevent short sellers manipulating share prices and stock values.

I agree Angersharkz, UPS may be a bigger business with a bigger market cap but the core of the business is still essentially the same as RMG, in fact without checking I suspect RMG's P/E ratio will be far lower and more attractive than that of UPS.

Yet still the vampires that are the shorts are able to target RMG, largely because the UK stock market which it operates in is so amenable to those who specialise in corruption and manipulation.

Ruxi - In response to your Blackstone comment, then yes, I'd put money on it that the the same brokers who are valuing RMG at 600+ and recommending it as a BUY will also have connections and relationships with the shorters, such is the level of duplicity, corruption and manipulation in the UK stock market.

Dessy - I'm not entirely sure just what you're waffling on about but I didn't offer my view or opinion... I offered facts from first hand experience of the workplace and the role of managers within it.

This dispute with management and their union has been rumbling on for a long time now so in theory should already be 'priced in' but as we've mentioned previously 'pricing in' only seems to apply to good news.

It really is a non-story as Dynamo has already pointed managers are already desperately trying to justify there mostly pointless and unnecessary positions and certainly wouldn't risk striking as it would only highlight just how unnecessary their roles are anyway.

My office functions just as well on the occasions we don't have any manager, yet some days we can have as many as 4 managers to look after 60 posties, utterly ridiculous!

Managers have virtually nothing to do once all the posties are out on delivery and usually go home early themselves by 11 a.m. at the latest, those that do stick around and try to look busy will be tidying up stray empty trays and Yorks... you could pay someone minimum wage to that!

Maximas 1 - Exactly , it's just all one big game of corruption and manipulation, either that or they're utterly incompetent at analysing the value of a stock to have such a wild change in their opinion in such a short space of time despite no real change in market conditions or business fundamentals from 5 or 6 weeks ago.

Agreed, another example of manipulation by the big players and MM's... they can't bear the thought of posties getting a decent price when buying through the share incentive plan so they always bump it up for a few days before the 15th of each month.