Royal Mail Share Discussion Threads

[medieval blacksmith] 19/5/2022 17:38

“ A successful profitable company benefits the employees most.”

Does it really?

Dream on careful.

[careful] 19/5/2022 17:33

Share volume quite low today.
Never quite understood the way prices are fixed.
The market can crash on low volume sometimes.

These huge swings are a feature of markets these days.
From an initial offering 8 years ago for 330p.
HMG were criticised for selling it off cheaply if you remember.

Up to a peak of over 600p, back down to about 125p, up to 600p again, now about 300p.
There have been dividends.

But for a company with a strong market position and a robust turnover of £11bn this is disappointing to say the least.
But the CWU has an anti hero as a leader.
He is in the Scargill Red Robbo league, and the miracles those folk heroes did for their industries and jobs in now history.

Let us hope common sense prevails here. A successful profitable company benefits the employees most.
They get many times more out of it than we shareholder/owners which is how it should be.
But we need a return. Hope the management/unions can get the right deal.

[medieval blacksmith] 19/5/2022 15:03

lefrene

"careful, the problem with RMG compared to any real world transport business, is that it's wasteful due to still being run along civil service lines."

Wasteful, and private is any better? Have you looked at the likes of Thames Water and have all the private energy companies going bust escaped you? They haven't, you the tax payer will end up paying for so-called superior private efficiency.

[isis] 19/5/2022 14:30

Another day, sadly another price hike incoming and this time it's the Royal Mail. Royal Mail had already hiked the cost of posting letters by an average of around 7%, and parcel prices by an average of about 4% and now they'll cost even more.

How much will costs rise by? At the time of writing there's little info out there but these are the current costs:

Letter: 1st class 95p, 2nd class 68p
Large Letter: 1st class £1.45, 2nd class £1.05
250g: 1st class £2.05, 2nd class £1.65
500g: 1st class £2.65, 2nd class £2.15
750g: 1st class £3.30, 2nd class £2.70
Small Parcel 2kg: 1st class £4.45, 2nd class £3.35
Medium Parcel 2kg: 1st class £6.95, 2nd class £5.35
10kg: 1st class £7.95, 2nd class £6.95
20kg: 1st class £12.95, 2nd class £10.45



Royal Mail warns of parcel delivery price hikes in the UK

Simon Thompson, chief executive of Royal Mail, said: “As we emerge from the pandemic, the need to accelerate the transformation of our business, particularly in delivery, has become more urgent.

“Our future is as a parcels business, so we need to adapt old ways of working designed for letters and do it much more quickly to a world increasingly dominated by parcels.”

He added: “Our focus now is to work at pace with our people and our trade unions to reinvent this British icon for the next generations, so that we can give our customers what they want, grow our business sustainably and deliver long-term job security for our great team.

“We have no time to waste.”

[vk74] 19/5/2022 14:25

215p within the next couple of weeks

[lefrene] 19/5/2022 14:16

careful, the problem with RMG compared to any real world transport business, is that it's wasteful due to still being run along civil service lines. Protocols are more important that dirty disgusting profits! Until somebody changes the culture of the business it will continue to operate as a quasi government department. If it didn't have the letter monopoly and the legacy but separate Post Office network that feeds it, it would have gone under long ago.

[thegreatgeraldo] 19/5/2022 13:27

Decade of wasted opportunity?

RM could have really attacked the burgeoning parcel market to more than replace the fall in revenue from the decline in regular mail deliveries.....

...maybe it's just my neck of the woods, but RM seems to barely get a look in on parcel deliveries....DPD seems to be a leader, along with Amazon & UPS & countless dudes with white vans...

[careful] 19/5/2022 13:13

who would have thought that an easy to understand business like RMG could be so volatile.
A turnover in excess of 11bn and profitable.
Negligible debt.
Marketcap under £3bn.

As buffet says, the market is a casino right now.

[25guilderbag] 19/5/2022 12:45

Not that long ago it was sub 200p. Plenty of scope for more falls. I'm looking to buy in, it's on my list but needs to be far cheaper before I get involved.

[tuftymatt] 19/5/2022 12:27

Yeah we need to hope it does what others have done recently when reporting, drop on news but then tick back up a little. Problem is the wider market too!!

[coxsmn] 19/5/2022 12:23

Over reaction this morning but it is what it is

[brut winky] 19/5/2022 11:58

I like the look of around £2.20, bit go but could be possible backend.

[prokartace] 19/5/2022 11:49

Wow this share doesn't mess around. Its so directional, i.e. once it starts going up it keeps on going up. Likewise coming down is the same. Can we look forward to 120p again?
This share movement reminds me of Reach which behaves in a similar fashion. I see no reason to invest right now as it will be clear when the direction reverses and I can jump in then

[unastubbs] 19/5/2022 11:28

cheers tuftymatt, you're a gent!

[tuftymatt] 19/5/2022 10:40

Welcome back in Una and let's hope for all our sakes you have a better run this time 👍🏻

[unastubbs] 19/5/2022 10:34

decided to come and share your pain - in at 2.97, though i bought and sold at a loss earlier in the year 4.13 to 3.70 - alas, alack!

GLA

[ram376s] 19/5/2022 10:18

Disappointing start .GDR 300 nurses to train for new test.Multibag possible with news anticipated .

[brut winky] 19/5/2022 09:30

Looks ominous here, poor dogs will be getting kicked across driveways by all the ones who didn't sell.

[brucie5] 19/5/2022 09:20

Careful, you have a strategy for this, or just a folio? In theory, with the right value shares, one should be able to buy the market down. But it's always unnerving to see capital loss.

[careful] 19/5/2022 09:06

A violent reaction today.
On a bad day for the markets.

Quite normal in these times, here and America.
Results looks quite good, yet a brutal markdown.
Something will be sorted on the dispute front.

Markets look fragile, hoping not another meltdown.
We have had so many in recent years.

2003. 2008 2020. all 40% plus.

[brucie5] 19/5/2022 09:06

Final break downwards? Hopefully not a final breakdown. Still occupies a niche position, with scale. Dividend paying and cash generative. I continue to hold. Will be interesting to see what IC have to say.

[rudder] 18/5/2022 14:15

Largely thanks to Tony Blair and his muppets

[brucie5] 18/5/2022 11:33

careful15 May '22 - 13:58 - 12752 of 12755
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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.
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No, I think the real problem is people like you, speaking from up their backsides. It really suggests some startling ignorance, which is never a recipe for anything good. I suggest you get acquainted with some of those in the careers you mention. Among which, we cannot recruit enough of either teachers or doctors.

Brexiteer by any chance?