Five-year anniversary

Tomorrow, 9 April 2019, is the five-year anniversary of the SIP 2014 Free Shares award.

From tomorrow, colleagues who were given Free Shares in 2014 will be able to sell them tax-free, as with any SIP 2013 Free Shares you hold. If you want to keep your shares, you do not need to do anything. You will continue to benefit from being a Royal Mail shareholder. 

Temporary suspension to real-time dealing service

Real-time dealing via the Employee Share Plan (ESP) Portal (www.royalmailemployeeshares.co.uk) will be suspended from 4.30pm today, 8 April 2019, for a period of time. This is in case the demand to sell SIP 2014 Free Shares from tomorrow results in more individual orders to sell Royal Mail shares than can be processed in an orderly way. Look out for a notification on the Portal homepage when real-time dealing becomes available again.

If you have any questions about your SIP shares, please look at the paper statement sent to you in March, log on to the ESP Portal or call the Employee Shares Helpline free on 0800 012 12 13. 

Please note: The value of shares can go down as well as up. If you have any questions about what you should do with your shares, you should get independent advice from a suitably qualified and authorised independent financial adviser. The directors and employees of Royal Mail, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited (‘Trustee’) and Equiniti Limited (‘Equiniti’), the Share Scheme administrator, are not authorised to provide independent tax or financial advice.