In the UK, we would have been accessing the Internet via something called GPOonline for the past five years if anybody in power there could have seen beyond their nose. It is arguable that as e-trade eats in to the traditional retail market, the demand for package distribution will increase. But both these will be of scant consolation. These two businesses will have to fight as never before for the declining traditional postal business, and the new potential markets, as deregulation and nontraditional competition bites them. I do not forecast a bright future for either of them.
Marketing myopia is simply poor long-range vision.
It's easy when you know how. But when you get it wrong, it can be terminal. And I know. I've seen Stallone's recent movies. Barry Gibbons has headed companies on both sides of the Atlantic, including Burger King.