The Post Office saw this coming.  Over a decade ago the Post Office asked if it could enter new businesses in record retention (medical, income, taxation), automated bill payment, social security check administration and a raft of other opportunities that would provide government delivery and storage services to various agencies and to under-served users such as low-income and the elderly.  But its mandate did not include these services, and expansion into new markets required a change in charter which was not approved by Congress.  Thus, USPS was stuck doing what it has always done, as market shift pushed the Post Office increasingly into irrelevancy.

In fact there may be nothing wrong, if the excerpt is to be believed. They saw, they adapted, they weren’t permitted to succeed.

Antony Royal has been appointed director of 2degrees, following the resignation of Brian Leighs.

Royal is a trustee of Te Huarahi Tiki Trust and a director of its commercial arm the Hautaki Trust. The Trust was given a stake in 2degrees, partly in return for the radio spectrum it was allocated as part of a Treaty of Waitangi claim. In addition, it was recently disclosed that the Hautaki Trust has borrowed $2.6 million from 2degrees???s majority shareholder Trilogy International to maintain its stake in New Zealand???s third mobile operator.

Royal is also a member of Nga Pu Waea, the national Maori working group formed to advise on Maori interests and development opportunities in the governments broadband projects. Royal denies there is a conflict of interest in being a director of 2degrees and a member of Nga Pu Waea.