We no longer check to see whether Telegraph. To see our content at its best we recommend upgrading if you wish to continue using IE or using another browser such as Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome. Investors can buy Royal shares through most of major brokers but they are also available direct at www.

Application packs will also be held in 1, Post Office branches nationwide with details of which ones available at postoffice. Those interested can also call The Government will keep a stake of between 30pc and Around , staff will get 10pc of the shares for free. Demand was massive with enough demand from institutions to fill their allocation within three hours and with stockbrokers inundated by requests from individual investors, who should end up with 30pc of the company.

How do you solve a problem like the Royal Mail valuation?

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I missed out on Royal Mail. What to do with your Royal Mail shares? Get in quick and buy Royal Mail shares. A spokesman for Barclays Stockbrokers said: It said a third of the orders were from those wishing to put their shares in an Isa, underlying the high level of demand from small investors. However, demand has been such that the Government may need to set a maximum. In the Eighties privatisations, allocations of shares were limited and based on demand.

But the Government has not confirmed that will definitely be the case this time.

It says it will evaluate the total requests for shares before deciding whether to cap how many each applicant can have. It has not ruled out a first-come, first-served cut-off, which would probably see anyone applying after today missing out. It is certainly easy to understand why brokers were reporting huge demand from small investors. The temptation of an estimated income of around 7pc in a world of rock bottom rates gives the shares plenty of appeal.

The estimated yield would leave it standing head and shoulders above high income favourites Centrica 4. The dividend is certainly well covered.

Royal Mail could, in theory, afford to double the current suggested pay out given its level of profitability, although that would leave nothing for investment. Investors can buy the shares through most major stockbrokers, including Hargreaves Lansdown, but they are also available directly at www.

Application packs are also be available in 1, Post Office branches or investors can call A list of brokers offering the shares, and their dealing costs, can be found at telegraph. At the top end of that range it might challenge for the blue chip index when its constituents are next reshuffled in December.

Institutions and retail investors have until October 8 to apply for shares in the flotation, giving them only 11 days to stake a claim. Full trading of the shares will take place from 8am on October The Royal Mail has published a list of brokers' costs: Read more detail on these fees here.

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How many shares can I buy? So will I miss out? Should I try and invest? Can that dividend be trusted?

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