Zumbox enters public beta with a fairly interesting alternative to traditional snail mail. Zumbox delivers paperless mail online – from street address to street address. With Zumbox, these businesses as well as individuals can send documents and custom mailings to one’s physical street address, and by entering their address on Zumbox.com, recipients can consult what was sent. That’s an entirely different approach than Earth Class Mail, which scans all the postal mail it receives on a custom address created by a user, and then posts it to the customer’s digital account. Sending and receiving with Zumbox is free to consumers, and businesses are charged 2 cents postage per address.

You have to sign up to send and receive “mail” within the system. This mail can take pretty much any form: letters, bills, menus, catalogs, magazines, and all manner of direct marketing junk mail. Zumbox has mapped out more than 150 million U.S. street addresses for businesses and consumers alike. If you live or work somewhere in the U.S., there’s a 99% chance that you have a Zumbox. It just needs to be activated. Unlike email, Zumbox verifies the identities of everyone in the system. When you sign up for a Zumbox based on your street address, you receive a PIN in the mail (to your physical mailbox) that activates your Zumbox, at which point you can send and receive mail from it.

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Saturday, December 27th, 2008 at 1:07 pm | by Kur-nia-one |