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Red, I think that RB should have an eye patch and also bite the knuckle on his little finger when hatching an evil plot (ala Austin Powers).
TP could be made into a Vincent Price styled double agent sent by the UK government to go undercover to investigate stock market fraud but goes too deep and ends up at the top of the CWU and is then convinced to 'go rogue' by RB.
The UK government realises the problem but the only agent available is Dave Ward (a bumbling Mr Bean character) who is sent in to rescue the situation....lol

Red, it was all very tounge in cheek. I included RB as he would be one of the leading characters if I were to write a Wolf of Wall Street style film. The plot is all there, just need to pad it out for 90 mins.
I would have RB as the foreign villian sitting in a leather swivel chair and stroking a white cat (perhaps a role for F-F?... maybe not) and TP would be a double agent (perhaps with a back story linking him to RB?). Either way their motive is to corrupt the stock market with a view to world domination.....hahahaha.....etc

I can see a great conspiracy theory here.
RB & TP agree to engineer a strike based on the 35hr week in order to drive down the SP. They also throw in the Parcelforce dispute for good measure. The SP tumbles following the ballot result and an unknown "organisation" hoovers up the shares.
TP knows that if he influences the IA ballot then RM will go to court and get it thrown out causing the SP to rise briefly by 35p. The "organisation" cashes in and the sting us completed.
DW finds out that this has happened behind his back and plots his revenge.
To be continued..........lol

StYd, are you suggesting that the CWU are complicit in trying to manipulate the SP?
Do you have any proof of this or is this a spoof?

Off topic...... From what I can gather, Npower are restructuring because their operating profit has been revised from £1.9bn to £1.4bn so they are closing call centres in the UK (probably opening up new ones in Delih) and blaming it on the UK price cap? I think that's the gist? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
PS; I'm not sure that the unions were involved in any of this?

Red, I agree. The big boys call the shots. The best we can do is second guess them and hang on to their coat tails.

It is also interesting to not the RTS surcharge as this is now a "growth" area for some mail centres.
There was a contributor on here recently who was adamant that RTS was "priced in" to the postage rate. Clearly this is not the case.
Where items are returned to sender for the below reasons, your items will be scanned and you will be charged at your agreed contract rate.
Undeliverable items are not collected nor a redelivery arranged within the 18 day holding period
Incorrect/incomplete address
Recipient moved (gone away)
Recipient refused

200iq, Fruitster, I totally agree with these surcharges. The question is, will mail centre managers have the cohones to implement them? For far too long the machine operators and engineers in our mail centre have been flagging up DSA overweight items or items with incorrect bar coding resulting in manual sortation. We are told "we don't want to upset this customer in case they take their business elsewhere" so we absorb it and say nothing.
The same goes for letter box collection surcharges. I can't remember seeing a yellow sticker on an item for the last 5 years! To prove the point I occasionally send an overweight or under paid item to my wife as a test and they are always delivered. Hopefully that will now change?

Fruitster, it is interesting to note that GLS has virtually doubled, in terms of both growth and profit, over the last 6 years. Reading the transcript again, I can see that it won't be long before GLS wants to offload RMG, especially if there is more growth in the EU and USA?
Last week Rico stated "So we are building GLS and growing GLS. It's organic growth. It's small acquisitions. There will be acquisitions also in other countries in the GLS area. When we look to Italy, we're always just doing certain acquisitions there. U.S., we said. So there will be small ones, not big ones. And I think if you have a company, which is growing so strong, underlying growth rates by in a way, take acquisitions out of 8%, 9%, you got to be ready to support that growth. This company needs to grow and to expand. We are very careful. When you look to 10 acquisitions, you maybe take 1. Only if it really fits. We are very happy that U.S. is back on track. We have the Dicom, our Canadian one is very good. And if you look to our Italian performance despite the fact that Amazon is moving all the volume to not all of them, but a lot of volume to the post, we're still growing above that -- over 6%, which is -- it's a great, great growth rate."

Fruitster, do you have a rough figure for GLS net worth? I have read Stuart Simpson's report which outlines that GLS profit is growing especially in Italy which is it's biggest market but cannot see a figure that indicates net worth.
Perhaps I missed it as the transcript is quite lengthy?

Bristol, if a postie is going to walk up to your front door it is more beneficial and economical if he is carrying all if your items (letters and parcels) instead of doing it twice (or two different postie's doing it once)?
Also there is the USO to consider.

Red, I thought that as you were suffering with Man Flu (which as we all know is extremely serious and potential life threatening) you may need some light hearted comments to get you through the weekend.
Hopefully you will be up and running for Monday morning?

Red, in case you were wondering about the pencils?
https://youtu.be/G2DCExerOsA

One up each nostril? I thought that was pencils??
Oh no....wrong illness...lol

nuri, what about the £1.2bn that private investors have gives out of the bottom line since July 2014?
RM could have done with that to invest in new technology but now they will need to borrow or we could just sell off some more family silver. I wonder what Mount Pleasant would fetch on the open market?

nuri, you posted at 10:30 today "Good luck - and just remember RMG is not public sector or a public service - its 100% private sector and almost all of you posties are as capitalist as any on these share forums. Your votes for strike are nothing more than large scale looting and sabotage of your own shares and their long-term prospects."
Like the majority of RM employees holding 913 SIP (free) shares really care about the SP or divided?
By the way, RM have paid out over £1.28 per share in divided payments since July 2014. That's over £1.2bn which is two thirds of the amount that RM have just borrowed for the parcels transformation programme and RM still turns a profit.
I think that RM could have done quite nicely on it's own without having to resort to private investment. Even your idol Thatcher wasn't prepared to sell "the queen's head".
BTW, if RM are not a public service then what is it? A high court judge recently pointed out that IA was not in the public interest. Was he wrong?

nuri, where are you sourcing your data from?
Prior to privatisation in 2013 RM had been turning a profit for many years despite Post Office Counters Ltd haemorrhaging cash. The doomed/failed Horizon project cost the taxpayer £700m alone!
RM and POCL were separated and RM was sold off despite it being the government's cash cow (RM used to hand the government most of it's profits!) as David Cameron and George Osborne's austerity programme meant that they were unwilling to lend RM the taxpayers money to transform and upgrade the parcels side (how very short sighted). The sale of RM also meant a £2bn windfall for the Treasury thus massaging Osborne's figures.
As for the CWU brainwashing its members? Do you really think that Terry Pullinger has the ability to brainwash 81,000 postal workers? If that were true then don't you think that the RM BoD would want some of that magic. There should be political parties and other large employers queuing out of the door to employ him! If I was TP then I would be pleased to think that anyone thought that I was that powerful.
The reason that 81,000 postal workers chose to support IA was because they know the inside story.

nuri, are you for real? " I think the least we should expect is a good dividend considering we've absorbed a 40% reduction in share price."
I don't believe that you were forced into investing in RM?
Your only contribution to RM is to "top up" on shares while they are cheap in the hope of a good dividend payment and eventually get a return on your investment. You make it sound like you are doing us a favour.... bizarre.

New bad back????
I thought that you were talking about Rico for a minute...lok

Wolves, our house has central heating and our thermostat is set to 20 which is more than adequate. At 25 degrees it must be like a sauna!