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TMS, so you would be advocating for more job cuts, leading to ever increasing quality of service failures and therefore more fines?

When I look at articles on Royal Mail lately, there appears to be an ever increasing frustration from Joe Public and SMEs regarding the poor delivery standards and the fact that Post Office Counters has signed up with Evri and DPD (citing that won't be doing it any good either.

TMS, why would the UK operation want more job cuts when it has already announced that unfilled vacancies are a contributing factor to poor quality of service?

Reinstating the dividend..... possibly but highly unlikely in my opinion.

As far as I'm aware, Thompson was put on "gardening leave" in July and left the business last month?

Thank you for posting that link Sid.

I was quite shocked to see this, not because I didn't know that Whistl had put in a claim but because of the sheer bluntness of the whole statement especially given that Whistl is one, if not the largest, of Royal Mail's customers. They certainly haven't pulled their punches.

Given that Kretinsky and/or Vesa Equity have a foot in each camp, could there be some sort of hidden agenda?

TMS, it looks as though your modus operandi, on any of the LSE forums that you frequent, is to abuse anyone who has a differing opinion from yours and are quite happy to troll others with your abuse. Your antagonism towards others suggests bullying lof the lowest order.

In short, you add nothing of any use to this forum.

TMS, no you weren't included in the conversation as it was addressed to Redceo, however the total narcissist in you was obviously annoyed about being excluded and just had to respond.

JB, so getting back to the original point that the UK operation are blaming poor quality of service partially on unfilled vacancies....... isn't this the company that, eighteen months ago determined that it was overstaffed and gave entire early shifts in smaller mail centres VR terms to leave that is now using the excuse of lack of available workforce? Honestly, you really couldn't make it up.....

On the subject of quality of service failures, it has been noticed that, depending on location, T48 items are failing due to lack of parcels automation. There are around ten "small" mail centres (three of which are located in Devon and Cornwall and three in Scotland) which don't have and never will have parcel sorting machines. Traditionally, the early shifts would sort the T24 and T48 items manually however the new regime insists that these are now sent to the nearest mail centre with parcel machines however more often than not the recieving mail centre only has the capacity to deal with the T24 items and returns the T48 items to the sending mail centre the following day meaning that the T48 now becomes T24 and has to be sorted manually by mail centre staff who are prepared to turn up following an early morning phone call which is not always positively received.

TMS, thus proving my point....lol

No need to cry because you weren't included in the conversation......lol

Redceo, there are some posters here that absolutely can't not (apologies for the double negative) respond to others in a childish and spiteful manner and try to censor the debate by insinuating that some should not be posting here then follow it up with "I’m allowed to respond to any poster, however I want to, whenever I want to. It’s how a forum works". Unbelievable double standards but that's what you get with a total narcissist.

TMS, I was referring to high absenteeism due to sick leave which I believe is now back to the normal (pre-pandemic) levels of below 5%.

My Marxist narrative is that unfilled vacancies need to be filled but you would have to ask why they aren't being filled? Is it because current terms and conditions mean that it is just as lucrative to work in a supermarket,fast food outlet or office where you aren't required to go out in all weathers and can work in a warm, dry environment? Is it because the vacancies aren't being advertised as a cost saving exercise? I guess that we will never know but whatever the reason it's clearly something that needs sorting out. One thing that is for sure is that Gen Z don't appear to see it as a career path.

Thursday's half yearly results and statement will be interesting. I'm still expecting RM quality of service to be below specification over the last six months and this time "strike action and high absenteeism" cannot be used so it will be interesting to see what excuses are rolled out this time.

TMS, "I haven’t been bullish on the business fundamentals of Royal Mail for at least 18 months so that’s a lie.".....

yeah, I'm looking back at your posts from eighteen months ago........hang on......no I'm not, because they're not available to view......lololol

TMS, "what happens if there is no Royal Mail tomorrow? Hmmmm".

How about we all become IDS shareholders? I believe that some would prefer that.

"Because anybody with more than 3 brain cells that is thinking from a business point of view would not want any kind of USO in Royal Mail".

Yet despite the fact that you knew all about the UK operation's obligations, you were still happy to invest here and now, two years after AS was telling us that the fundamentals of the business were sound and that the business had loads of liquidity and that the SP was totally undervalued you are advocating that the USO be removed?

TMS, thanks for the clarification. Incidentally the only tears coming from me today were the tears of laughter whilst reading your pathetic posts.....lololol

"I don’t think it’s directly a hindrance to the share price. I think it’s a hinderance to the business. And I want the business to succeed".......Yes, you want the business to succeed because you want the SP to rise and the dividend to be reinstated......we all do.....

TMS, gor the record, I have never said that the USO will be in place for another ten years. You're making things up now.

What I have always said about the six day USO is that it is currently the status quo and will be until changes are made.

TMS, for what it's worth, I think that Wrexham FC will win the Premier League. Now I can't tell you when but it'll definitely happen. Probably not much use to you if you're planning on placing a bet so saying that the USO will, at some juncture and at a point in time hitherto unknown as yet is a totally useless statement for the purposes of this forum.

The reason why those on this forum that want to see changes made to the USO, or even see the USO scrapped is because they see it as a hindrance to the SP and therefore their investment and subsequently their wealth. If the SP weny to 600p tomorrow morning, nobody would be talking about this because they would be too busy cashing in.

TMS, resorting to making it personal.....not a good look and a good sign that you're losing the argument. Sad.

TMS, "what the last 3 CEO’s did is irrelevant you melon".

It's funny how it's irrelevant when it suits your narrative?

If Thompson had managed to get changes made to the USO would it still be irrelevant? Thought not.....

Darbo, I'm happy to be a USO ramper and just in case you're not aware it's also the current default position. What are you doing to get the USO changed? Perhaps writing to your MP or Keith Williams?

If you want change then you have to get involved in making change happen.

TMS "I won’t put a timescale on it given that I’m Joe Soap on the street basing my judgments on the publicly available data…..who knows, next month? Next year? 5 years?"......10 years possibly, given that three consecutive CEOs have failed to get the USO changed over the last decade?

So you're just putting absolute garbage out there then without having any idea as to what's going to happen.

To quote AngerSharkz, "you absolute weapon".....lol

TMS, If you say so then it must be the absolute truth.....lol

Out of interest, what number would you put on the USO and when would you envisage it to be changed? You and Maximas keep spouting the same old rhetoric so you must have some ideas?