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I assume realise "posties" don't own the company and it's the CEO customers need to trust not it's workers. Although as DPD & EVRI have now announced they've got issues meeting their customers demands it's not clear who they can trust:

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1000913/royal-mail-strike-spreads-disruption-to-couriers-evri-and-dpd-1000913.html

Just collected parcels from one of our customers who is always busy at this time of the year but they've chosen to send over 50% of their parcels via DPD today, in order to beat the IA, so that's around a van load from just one customer gone to a competitor, the cost of the IA to RM must be massive if this small customer is anything to go by.

I assume HSBC downgrading the shares hasn't helped today's share price, it's also looking very likely the next fortnight of planned IA will proceed. There's not a lot of good news around at present for IDS.

Numbers are still holding up in my area, a few posties drifting back in the smaller DO's but the bigger units almost 100% support.

Are you on a wind up as I can't recall ever delivering a parcel for Currys?

The Amazon jobs are usually owner/driver roles so of little interest to RM employees, I guess on the flip side if the RM pay etc is so good why do we see so few ex Amazon drivers working for RM, I can't think of any in the 3 DO's I come into regular contact with, plus why do approx. 50% of new starters quit within a month of starting if the pay etc is so good?

Hi Simon, we know your plan but if it's anything like yesterday's TV interview then it'll be a car crash!

Fact check: Unite have today said the bonuses for manager's hasn't been agreed by them, so what else have you got wrong?

Just to add my sites open but there's only a couple of people working plus unless they can get the delivers in they'll have nothing to deliver anyway.

DW said last night the pay rise is now in the right area, it's all the other strings including compulsory redundancies causing the issues.

I can't understand why the share price has risen this morning, that makes no sense?

The final throw of the dice by a seemingly desperate ST, it'll be interesting to see what happens next if the latest offer is rejected, as ST has to eventually broker a deal of some kind.

Out of interest how do you know what your local posties are doing, I haven't a clue what mine does?

In my DO sickness seems no worse than the norm in any other work place.

The sick pay is the standard pay in the UK, it's only the "gig economy" companies like Amazon who've tired to remove sick pay entitlement. The 1 off in 5 weeks entitlement is down to posties working 6 days a week, the alternative is to have 1 day off a week and so work 5 days, working 5 days/38 hours seems the norm in the UK.

The "one legged" postie probably senses their time is up at RM and will therefore be seeking VR rather than face reduced sick pay entitlement & probably being forced out next year with no IHR. We've at least 10% of our workforce who fall under that category who are already talking about seeking VR.

You do realise there's a massive, and I mean massive, desire for VR, I was shocked to hear that virtually every postie in my medium sized DO with any reasonable length of service is considering seeking VR, even though we have job vacancies not too many posties at present. Although you can why they want VR, if they are reasonably healthy then they'll get similar paid work elsewhere, if they aren't they may as well leave now with a pay off than be forced out within a year. I wouldn't be surprised if 20,000+ employees apply for VR I doubt the business has prepared for the potential uptake or will have a clue how to deal with it.

You sense the union could well be fighting a losing battle as I'd imagine most posties etc would take basically a year salary as VR rather than quit next year when the new later times and the clamp down on sickness pay etc are all brought in, we've already lost two long serving posties recently who've just quit w/o any pay off as they've already had enough.

That's difficult to answer given we've been given no clues as to whether RM are prepared to move on any of their proposals, from what RM have said today it seems they aren't prepared to move on their miserly pay offer.

It's not a vote just a show of hands, even if somebody felt it was a reasonable offer they'd be brave to say it was, it's a all just a publicity stunt by the CWU

No idea whether this is good or bad news for Vesa but it will no doubt delay the Government's decision on any potential takeover.