Royal Mail Share Discussion Threads

[tuftymatt] 18/5/2022 09:22

Good to see this one ticking up again.
I think it's been oversold and should start with a 4 despite the obvious drop in volumes / rising costs. When I say start with a 4 I don't mean 40 either.....lol

[rudder] 18/5/2022 08:45

I would imagine RM has got its employees by the balls at the moment.

[careful] 15/5/2022 12:58

The real problem that needs to be sorted is not the unions and miners as Thatcher did, but the cosy and comfortable public sector.

Workshy, loafing around at home doing nothing on full pay, refusing to even turn up to work.
Teachers, doctors, passports, driving licence and the rest.

Toally secure on the government payroll.
As in Russia in the communist era, the only cushy safe jobs in a recession are those working for HMG.
all funded by the taxpayer.

Only private companies go bust if they are overpaid and inefficient.
About time the 1.3 million staff of the shambolic NHS were sorted as well.
We need another Maggie.

[tuftymatt] 06/5/2022 14:58

Wider market woes or something else dragging this lower?
Can't believe it's all IA driven but maybe it is.

[geckotheglorious] 03/5/2022 10:54

careful
Post 12747
"gekko
You and I have been offered key parts in the latest Snow White film.
I play Grumpy and you play Happy."


Hahahaha funny.

:)

[careful] 03/5/2022 08:37

gekko

You and I have been offered key parts in the latest Snow White film.
I play Grumpy and you play Happy.

[careful] 03/5/2022 08:30

I read that the offer to the CWU is 5%.
That is 3% no strings, 2% dependant upon productivity target.
The CWU leader wants it to be 5% no strings.

If true a deal must be possible.
Hard to believe they would strike over that.

[geckotheglorious] 29/4/2022 10:12

careful
Post 12742
"What a great opportunity for criminal gangs. Shooting down drones carrying parcels.Maybe bringing them down electronically."


Wow you sound like a really unhappy person. Always seeing the negative in everything. As your whole post goes on to evidence.

Like yourself I have some concerns but technology is advancing rapidly and human ingenuity will offer up solutions to the problems you seem to have. For me,such doesn't bother me at all..



"RMG deliver hundreds of millions of parcels. The sky would be filled with them"

No different to the roads being crammed full of official postal vans, Amazon / Hermes/SPD/DHL official courier vans,private vans in cases of Hermes....

The roads would be alot clearer with all the traffic taken off the roads surely!
A positive!

Plenty of work around solutions - easier, for sure, countryside/rural drop offs. But there are solutions even for blocks of flat drop offs.




"And what if we were not home to take delivery.
Would a drone ring the doorbell? And if we lived in a flat or apartment"

What if not at home - same as it is now.
a) leave it in a safe place
b) leave it with a neighbour
c) take it to local depot for drop off
d) re-route to delivery where you are??

Would a drone ring a doorbell? FFS have you not heard of the Ring Doorbell? You dont need to ring it, your presence alone pings it and lets the occupant know someone is at the door.





"Just a few minutes thought and you would dismiss the idea"

You clearly haven't thought it through at all but just dismissed it outright!




."As for Musk and his driverless cars that rely on cameras only.
Just imagine it taking you down a winding country road. Can the camera tell the difference between a statue and a real person?"

Yes let's imagine your driving down a winding country road. YOU, as the driver, do you use VISUAL or LIDAR to navigate?

Can LIDAR tell the difference between a statue and a real person?

Technology is advancing fasts. AI and robotics will mean these "artificial entities" will be as capable as humans in the not too distant future.

So yes, driverless cars based on cameras only will be in operation and will work just fine.





"It seems you have to be a total idiot to become the World richest man these days, more so to become a President. A minister in the UK Government...only certified morons need apply"

Oh yawn how puerile of you.

Clearly you must be even less capable than a total idiot as you've got nowhere in life at all. Unlike the richest man, or the Potus...

[tuftymatt] 28/4/2022 15:17

Have to agree that drones in the courier industry are only good for one type of delivery and that's remote areas. Difficult to see how they would work in those areas when it comes to collections though.

[careful] 28/4/2022 14:39

What a great opportunity for criminal gangs.
shooting down drones carrying parcels.
Maybe bringing them down electronically.

RMG deliver hundreds of millions of parcels.
The sky would be filled with them.

And what if we were not home to take delivery.
Would a drone ring the doorbell?
And if we lived in a flat or apartment.

Just a few minutes thought and you would dismiss the idea.

As for Musk and his driverless cars that rely on cameras only.
Just imagine it taking you down a winding country road. Can the camera tell the difference between a statue and a real person?

It seems you have to be a total idiot to become the World richest man these days, more so to become a President.
A minister in the UK Government...only certified morons need apply.

[geckotheglorious] 28/4/2022 13:40

careful
Post 12739
"I wish posters would refrain from this ridiculous pie in te sky talk of robots and drones. Like 100% self driving cars it ill never happen at scale"


Wouldn't be too confident on any of those positions if I were you Careful.

[rudder] 28/4/2022 13:15

3.63 is the target.

[careful] 28/4/2022 12:16

I wish posters would refrain from this ridiculous pie in te sky talk of robots and drones.
Like 100% self driving cars it ill never happen at scale.

Shares should be set for a recovery.
Any ballot will always give the unions the right to strike.
It is a negotiating tool nothing more.

Posties will not want a strike, but it rarely comes to that.
Just having a mandate in his back pocket will give the CWW leader an extra option.
Not that he himself would not like a strike, he really is a blast from the past, very 1970's, probably has a picture of King Arthur Scargill on his bedroom wall.

But the members will want him to use the mandate but will not wish to strike.
Life is complicated, hoping as an investor a sensible deal will be reached.

[tuftymatt] 28/4/2022 12:02

Yeah it's waking up again like it tried to do last week.

[rudder] 28/4/2022 09:42

Chart starting to look interesting.

[coxsmn] 28/4/2022 08:07

Delivery robots are already used in the UK i.e. Milton keynes

[buywell3] 27/4/2022 23:53

And before anyone starts poo pooing the use of autonomous land based robots ( delivery robotic drones)

ADV = Autonomous Delivery Vehicle

read this



Already happening in the USA , Europe and China

Amazon with its Project Scout robot, FedEx with its Roxo robot, and Starship Technologies, which is making more than 10,000 contactless deliveries per day in the U.S. and Europe.
In China, Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, is expected to expand their existing fleet of 200 ADVs to 10,000 in as little as three years’ time.

There were roughly 7 million ADV deliveries in 2021, and Guidehouse estimates that number will reach 51 Billion by 2030.

[buywell3] 27/4/2022 23:38

Industrial action in such a large workforce as Royal Mail has been an ongoing issue for yonks



The use of land based robotic delivery drones should by now be at an advanced stage

Likewise aerial flying drones






Many more industrial action to come methinks


Mail Delivery by Drone: Japan Post Invests 3 Billion Yen for Commercial Drone Delivery by 2023

[tuftymatt] 27/4/2022 20:29

If that's the case then I shall keep buying into the fall.
This one showed signs of waking up last week and I think once stability returns to the wider markets it will bounce.
Divi as it drops gets more attractive too.

[applepieinthesky] 27/4/2022 17:58

Seems as though a strike ballot will be issued within next two weeks should bring it down towards 300p or thereabouts