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Why misquote Simon when he's made it clear he believes mail should be delivered Monday to Friday with parcels delivered 7 days a week. It's OK delivering mail to the general public 3 days a week but will businesses accept it?

I doubt VESA have any interest in taking over RM when it surely GLS they want to get their hands on, as why would anybody buy RM when it apparently losing £1m a day and stuck with the USO?

Re the vested shares, perhaps Simon T knows a takeover is looming so he is content to receive the shares as some kind reward for taking on the CWU and so lowering the share price, as I doubt rewarding him with anothrt bonus would have gone down to well when RM is claiming it's losing £1m per day? Whatever is the reasoning the timing is plain odd unless Simon T was threatening to do a Rico and quit?

I sense in his dreams as there's no indication Simon Thompson has arranged any further talks with the CWU

I've not seen anything recently from the CWU suggesting they want letter writing promoted, anybody who works on the frontlines can see for themselves that letters are decreasing in number but small packets and parcels are taking their places.

The chairs latest suggestion is that the CWU are refusing to work past 4pm on H&S grounds, however, all their are questioning is whether it's safe for lone woman to be delivering mail on foot in the dark, as parcel deliveries are already taking place in the dark, with the CWU approval.

£400,000,000 + £400M, where are you getting that figure from given that specials and tracked parcels would still have to be delivered on a Saturday?

I started at 6:30 today and was out of the delivery office at just gone 8:30 after prepping two rounds on what is a quiet summer Saturday, 2hrs 30 mins seems reasonable for peak. It's hard to believe senior management aren't aware of that given it's happening in 100's of delivery offices across the UK on a daily basis.

The latest is that senior management have now taken on our concerns and are going to discuss it further with the CWU

It's slightly disrespectful suggesting RM employees are lemmings when 97.5% of them have voted for IA, as matters stand if all the proposals are implemented staff will have to leave anyway, do it comes down to leave voluntary or be made redundant and receive a reasonable pay off, with so may disgruntled long serving staff playing the redundancy card doesn't seem the wisest move.

I guess you missed the part where the CEO suggested he's wants his staff to work Sunday's as they are twice as efficient as temp staff?

Also where are RM going to find all these agency staff from, the final nail in that argument is that they are presently paid more per hour than RM staff!!

If RM are incurring worryingly high losses then why are they spend £m's on a pointless uniform update, I can't recall many staff complaining about the old uniform, and also on moving most of the fleet to electric vans, when the likes of Amazon are still purchasing ICE vans?

They already have done it but what's the betting they are given the easiest walk in the office on a nice quiet day, with only 1 day's mail?

or make it has hard as possible if they realised that it would lead to 10K redundancies who would most likely join the dole queue given their age? I do wonder if any genuine customer i.e. those not hand picked by RM, does suggest that they don't want a mail delivery on Saturday, but they do on Monday, Tuesday etc.

Re 2 Then just choose a company from the list you recognise?

Re 3 I've never been bombarded with any emails from the well known comparison site I use.

"green" is the reason being given but as only 6% of post is apparently moved by air, then it seems more likely Royal Mail just want to move the mail deliveries to later in the day, so that it can be delivered with the "next day" parcels as they usually arrive mid morning, rather than send them out on separate delivery runs.

Perhaps as mail drops and parcels increase in years to come that may make sense but I can't see it does at present. No other company would try and deliver letters to addresses in the dark, or, probably, 30C temperatures in mid afternoons.

If post won't be arriving until 9am in the future then how do you anticipate deliveries will also be starting at 9am? It takes roughly 2 hours to sort the post and load the van/trolley, so the earliest rounds will start is 11am, I wonder what businessess who've always had their post delivered by mid morning will think when it arrives mid afternoon, just when their own postal staff are finishing for the day.

The worse aspect is that on peak days posties could be expected to be out delivering mail until late in the evening, when most businesses are closed anyway.

Posties generally feel angry the way they are being treated by RM, it seems they've taken a lead from PO Ferries!

Out of interest have you ever tried walking 20K+ a day whilst pushing a trolley loaded with post? I've not come across one "stiff" postman/woman.

Let's hope they are fully trained and not like the agency staff PO Ferries employed! It'll be interesting to see if the agency staff are brace enough to break the picket lines

Amazon have a constant stream of new recruits doing the sorting (I'm not sure what happens if they ever run out as the supply can't be that large?) who are paid the minimum wage and probably have minimal sickness benefits etc, RMG have experience posties doing the sorting before they start their rounds, not sure about efficiency but it's easy to see which is the cheaper option.

I'm assuming there's so few unrepresented cases as in the past it was easy to just instruct a solicitor to pursue a claim even if you weren't injured, it's slightly different now if you have to do all the paperwork yourself knowing all the you are doing it you are pursuing a fraudulent claim or, if you have suffered a minor whiplash injury, it's simply not now worth all the effort for just a few hundred pounds. Although I can't see the general public being too impressed if they past on the savings to their shareholders rather than their policyholders.