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I challenge anyone on this board to answer this one question: if you were a member of the CWU National Executive would you vote to send your negotiating team into the negotiating chamber after agreeing to Royal Mail's suggestion to delay any possible strike till after Christmas? A simple yes or no will suffice. We will let this board then decide upon the validity and honesty of your answers.

You will have all your answers very shortly, Fruitster. Tomorrow, in fact, might reveal all. I have no idea, along with most of us, what the CWU is going to discuss tomorrow. But if they announce they are not going to take up Royal Mails "kind" offer of walking naked into the negotiating room...then we will have a definitive answer to our disagreement. Simple as that.

Not regarding the bigger picture it does'nt. Why the hell would it? The most important point is this: until the threat of this strike is sorted out once and for all, with a mutually secured agreement that is, then these big swings in the s.p will carry on, indefinitely, year after year. Do you honestly think that the very real possibility of a massive and crippling strike is not the main reason for the s.p languishing where it presently is? Unless these two opposing ideologies, which are oceans apart, can come together in a coalition that is both productive AND mindful of keeping everyone in full time work...then this will be like ground hog day: it will just keep going on and on and on; or maybe until the Royal Mail says: to hell with it!! lets get it on and sort it all out once and for all. But, of course, it will then not be just a five year plan...it will be a generation, at the very least, before the Royal Mail can perhaps get back to what it currently is: the market leader. You takes your choice, Fruitster, but I tell you this much: if this strike develops into an "all out, brothers"...you just will not believe, until you see it in the media, the devastation this will cause. And whether you or anyone else cares to believe that or not...I just could not care less.

Rhetoric? You are certainly an expert in that, Fruitster. I have never read such rubbish wrote as to that which you have wrote, regarding Brexit, international markets, the strength of the pound, etc, etc, proclaiming what has affected RM's share price over the last several weeks or so. Rhetoric? Yes, Fruitster, you certainly know all about rhetoric.

Whether that is correct or not, Wolvesposty ( I do concede it is an interesting update though!) it is just one more indicator of what I have wrote of beforehand: Royal Mail cannot be trusted! To issue a statement of the sort they have issued today insisting talks are dependent on the CWU throwing the strike ballot to one side is preposterous, childish and arrogant in the extreme! Apart from also from being the most ridiculous and laughable suggestion that one party to other, when involved in a bitter and heated dispute, could ever propose. And if the CWU fall for this old chestnut...then they deserve everything they would get -- and more!!!

S.p £5.50? You will be reminded of that most assuredly in just over 14 months time. You must have the intellect of a Peewit, Redceo. Mind you...that is doing a Peewit a discourtesy.

Very interesting, JBTHISTLE. As of the last few week or so Royal Mail have been busy inducting Manpower workers to work over the Christmas period...indeed many of the Manpower workers are now to be seen on the floor doing the jobs that the Angard workers have been doing over the last several years or so. As of last week all Angard workers received an email/text informing them that: you are employed by Angard...not the Royal Mail; we would expect you to cross any picket line; you would be met at the gate by a manager -- you safety is assured! Not their words -- but the sentiment is exactly as expressed.
Disgraceful!! Instead of asking each Angard worker if they are prepared to cross a a picket line, and also informing them that if they did not they could be in breach of contract -- they have side-stepped them! Unbelievable...but absolutely true: so much for loyalty. Work hard and industriously for your employer, and, in return...get shoved to the side without even being asked where your obligations lie. You could not make it up. But, unfortunately, that is Royal Mail for you.

If you were the CWU would you trust Royal Mail at its word? Well if the answer is "Yes" you must be thick in the head. And so would be the CWU to enter into discussions with Royal Mail when with both hands tied behind their backs. Trust and loyalty? The Royal Mail does not know the meaning of the words. End of!!

Amazon is recruiting a small army of delivery drivers in a direct challenge to Royal Mail.

"The internet shopping giant is urging entrepreneurs across the UK to set up businesses for as little as £10,000 as part of a major scheme to bring more of its operations in-house.
And as 'delivery service partners', Amazon will guarantee them work from its vast network".

If I recall correctly -- idea was rolled out a while back in good ol US OF A. Now this side of the pond. Amazon, just like it does with every major postal service provider in every country it has operations, has always availed themselves of Royal Mail's services to go "the last mile". Very soon that will start to diminish most palpably -- to Royal Mail detriment!

You two gentlemen need to do a little more research...the present CFO has hardly had time to stretch her legs out under the table. Moving on? Pray tell - why? Perhaps she does not agree with any newly proposed financial strategy? Perhaps she does not like the colour of her office wallpaper even? Perhaps she does not like a lot of things? And perhaps it might just be better for Haydale, for once, to try and be a bit more honest and grownup towards their long suffering investors, whilst reminding themselves we are all, presumably, adults of course , and give us the real reason the CFO is leaving? That is, before the fickle and suspicious markets, being what they are by nature, make a reason up for them. Whether right or wrong!!

Well if I was prepared, at the time, to attach to the Hardman report the slightest amount of any likely credence...that has now just been completely blown away! What an awful RNS this has been. The markets will react rather badly I think -- and who can blame them!!

Brave decision, Farruggia1967...I hope it pays off for you -- hope it pays off for everybody!

That may well be, Farruggia1967...the problems arise if people don't, straightaway, intend to buy them back. This is the archetypal cliffhanger...a couple of nudes either way should do it. Come Monday's opening bell -- could be rather interesting to say the very least!

Anyway...time to go. Will return when the share price finally implodes...like in two weeks time. So - remember! Don't be tempted at these prices -- save your pennies! Because if this all goes t!ts up then even £2.15 is going to look like some sort of extortion. Ta-ra!!

Oh...and one other thing, Feline: when visiting Littlehampton stay well away from the council estate at Wick -- its a bl00dy ****h0le!!!

Almost spot on, luv -- good effort!!

Redceo: "£5.50 in 2020". My response: you can bet your little tight undies, sonny boy, I am not going to let you forget that!! And dear old Fruitster...lets not forget him. So, Fruitster, are you still clinging to the belief that the cost of I.A is priced into the s.p? And, do you still contend that the threat of I.A has nothing to do with the fall that is now occurring? Just wondering.

Believe me...Littlehampton on the beach front is really very nice. As is Worthing of course. Worthing -- now there is a place!! So many winding and exciting streets -- so much to see!! A person could spend a year walking about Worthing...and still not see it all. One thing to note about Worthing: all the main streets are named after famous English poets...from the Romantic period that is.

Passed Butlins at Bognor many a time, Isleworth. Walked in the park just opposite on a couple of occasions...rather delightful little tearoom in the middle of it. I will say there are some rather good Polish delicatessens in Bognor...spicy sausage and the like - yum!!

Not a patch on Littlehampton. And you have the castle of course...Arundel castle -- historic home of the Norfolk Dukes; Arundel town is not only ancient but quite delightful...as is the walk down along the river Arun. Alright maybe its only a pebbled beach in Littlehampton itself but its choke full of things to do and see...try the world famous fish and chips from "Freds" -- the fish is fresh off the boat! You can watch the pretty little fishing boats unloading their delicious, mouth-watering bounty as you queue up for your scran...always a queue at "Freds" -- but bl00dy well worth it, luv!!

Bognor? Its a bl00dy dump, luv!!