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No. Not when dealing with overbearing, pompous, egotistical fools and idiots...and rude and vulgar ones at that. They show their obvious lack of maturity I suppose. Just another lamentable sign of the times though!!

Shorts have increased you idiot not gone done. Sweet Jesus.

I am now fully convinced that most of you on this board are under the influence of some sort of mass hypnosis -- talk about deluded!! So here is a nice easy question for all you clever girls and boys...pay attention now please. If the CWU announce tomorrow that the result of the strike action ballot was a massive "yes" vote and they intended to strike, and then say, hmmm, er, on the Thursday of this week we are told that a fantastic deal had been done regarding Brexit, which, in all likelihood, the Commons would be inclined to accept, do you then think that the Share Price would suddenly rocket upwards? Because if you do...then you are not only deluded you are also in possession of an extremely low I.Q. The Pound and Brexit my @rse!! P.s and not forgetting of course the Short position at 6.71%. But, hey...thats just a mere game of bagatelle is it not?

One word sums it all up here -- ****ed!!!

You can invest up to £100.00 a month or, if lower, 10% of your gross (pre-tax) pay in any tax year. If you are paid weekly, you can invest up to £23.07 a week.

Buying shares from your gross pay, before income tax and national insurance contributions (NICS) are deducted, is more tax efficient than buying them from your net pay (ie after income tax and NICs) provided you keep your shares for five years.

For every five shares you buy in Royal Mail plc (Partnership Shares) the company will give you one "Matching Share" ...up to a maximum of two "Matching Shares" per month.

You can stop, restart or change your investment at any time (one time per month).

You own the "Partnership shares" you buy from your gross pay. These shares, together with the "Matching Shares" we add, will qualify for any future Royal Mail dividend payments for as long as you own the shares.

If you keep the shares for five years, you will not have to pay income tax and NICs on their value when you come to sell them. If you sell your "Partnership Shares" within three years of purchase, all of the corresponding "Matching Shares" will be forfeited.

Like I said, Isleworth, taking into account no deductions from the £23.07 (more money for you!) the two free shares each month (120 free shares over 5 years) and no trading fees, it equates to a tidy little earner. Nice!!

£23.07 a week, IsleworthSpy.

Not quite complete, wolvesposty. The maximum you can pay into the share plan each month is £92.28 I believe...good thing about it is there are no trading fees -- which means a higher average! The free shares each month only equate to two in reality...as this is the maximum per month you can receive...still rather nice though. Any odd pence keep rolling over into the following months until there is enough to buy full shares. All in all -- a nice little perk!

Lets us most fervently hope not, PostmanPorsche...after all we would not wish to bankrupt the company would we. Tsk, tsk, tsk...the greed of some people.

Redceo -- an undisputed "Master of the Blindingly Obvious"!!! Lol

One other thing...one other most vitally important thing I should say: if there is to be a deal of sorts then this will have to be factored in to the overall costs...the analysts will have a field day on this one. It will undoubtedly drag on the s.p and put back the projections towards sustainable growth and profitability for some extra extended time. Let us all hope a deal can be struck sooner than later. Best we have all the bad news now (regarding extra costs) in one big dollop than have it spoon fed to us over the next several years. After all what is the old saying? No gain without pain! Nothing truer here than that I feel.

In short, madasaballon, you have now confirmed what I have suspected when I first saw that massive upsurge in the s.p...those in the "know" always hear of it first. Like I stated previously: going to be very, very interesting come late Tuesday afternoon.

I do agree that the company has to go through some protracted and much needed re-organization...but not at the cost of wholesale butchery. The Royal Mail was not conceived 500 years ago in a dazzling flash of insightful brilliance to be a profit making entity. It was created to help commerce both travel and flourish more readily throughout the various sprawling regions of a fast expanding realm...and thus be directly responsible for the massive upswing in a rapidly growing economy which, in its turn, provided even more revenue for the royal coffers. It was, repeat, not, repeat, intended as a profit making business -- it was there to encourage and support business! And, in a very short time, became the envy of the civilized world. You cannot take a non-profit making company that is over 500 years old and, literally, overnight, expect to turn all this on its head; and also demand it makes a big year on year profit. An absolutely ridiculous expectation. And if some opinions do not like any of this...then - tough!! Because they are all going to have to get use to the idea...whether they like it or not. And that especially includes Herr Rico Back!!!

Most people on this board, madasaballon, have never even worked for Angard...never mind Royal Mail. They think Royal Mail is all about cold statistics, huge reinvestment and straight on facts and so called "fundamentals". To that I say Blah!! Royal Mail is so very, very much more than any of this. It is a huge, closely knit community of many differing peoples from hundreds of different cultures who identify very strongly with lots of common causes. It is indeed so much more than the sum total of its parts.

Just one small insignificant detail then, Fruitster, that separates Royal Mail from Lloyds, UK Housebuilders, RBS, Marks and Spencer, Aviva...and (in your words) many more UK domestics: all of these companies are not facing a massive and hugely destructive strike by the biggest single workforce represented by the most powerful union in the whole of the British Isles. Just thought I would mention it. So, I ask again: what reason for the surge in price? Certainly not Brexit fears being allayed somewhat, Fruitster. As for being thick, Redceo: how thick can anyone be when compared to a person who repeatedly advocates £5.50 in 2020? Now then that is not only pretty thick -- it is downright desperately hopeful as well!!! Lol.

Are you writing using some sort of secret postie code, RoyAIMail...or are you just smashed?

I have been trying to make sense of the huge share price rise this Friday gone....I don't subscribe to Fruitster's explanations. Two comments on this page. One by wolvesposty who mentions his latest worktime learning session concluding with the weeks RMTV message...appears to me as if Rico is imploring to the workforce not demanding of it. Is there a fundamental shift taking place here I wonder? Second comment, the one below by IsleworthSpy. "I also understand that there might be an agreement about A/L o/t payments in the new year. I'm not sure if that is financially beneficial to RMG".

Oh dear, Royal Mail, have you blinked first?

Tuesday afternoon is going to be very, very interesting.

To be more clear, Fruitster: what has the high probability of industrial action, thus wreaking the share price, got to do with Brexit?

Fruitster, I have always noted how a lot of people on this board seem to associate Royal Mail's s.p performance with the Brexit woes -- why? I constantly fail to appreciate what all of that has to do with the present internal problems of the business. As for the short positions: yes...on Monday they could well show a decrease -- but just as equally they could show an increase also!

There is something going on, I feel, in the background. After that inexplicable surge, several weeks ago, a steady decline; understandably so...a good deal of profit taking. Yet here we are again...now a slow but steady rise back up. Rather peculiar, in the absence of positive news, at the very least. I will be keeping a close eye on all this.

Well, after todays large and unexpected rise, I am, at present -- truly gobsmacked!! With shorts on the increase, and the figure now registered as 6.71 (which is high) and not forgetting any disclosures less than 0.5% are not tracked (Short Interest Tracker) then I really do admit to being completely baffled by the surge in price. Why on earth the big (huge actually) increase in just one day? It is almost inconceivable that so many people would buy into it under the present circumstances...unless? Unless "those" in the "know" of course have heard another little whisper? Intriguing to say the very least...