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Welcome to the UK stock market... the best place in the world for shorting scum to engage in their corrupt manipulation, driving down stocks to well below fair value .
Dynosaur, I can always identify the workshy old timers as they're the ones who are always banging on about failure of quality of service with letters, clearly longing for the good old days when RM was a 'public service' with all the inefficiency, malaise and Spanish practices that came with being such, when all you had to deliver were those oh so important birthday cards and hospital appointment reminders etc, (which incidentally are usually sent out weeks if not months in advance anyway)
I'm sorry to tell you those days are long gone and never coming back so if you're unable to adapt and move with the times as an employee of a now private sector parcel delivery company it might be best if you seek pastures new.
Angerz - I wouldn't pay too much heed to Dynamo.. He's just another of those Dynosaurs (see what I did there!) who want's the job to still be like it was in the good old old days back when he got paid 8 hours for spending a couple of hours wandering around with half a bag of letters.
As for the parcel sorting hubs, I hope it doesn't take a couple of years for them to have any teething issues ironed out and become fully operational, or else we're all in trouble!
Can someone explain what makes RMG particularly vulnerable to this manipulation (corruption imo) from MM's and shorts?
Why don't they target just about every stock in this way? Especially stocks of companies that are in far worse financial positions than RMG.
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.
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.