A great piece inked this month in Billing & OSS World profiling the digital mail delivery landscape. If you haven’t had a chance to review Tim McElligott’s piece, ‘Going Paperless Is an Upgrade’, we suggest checking it out.
We had the chance to catch up with Tim last month, and discussed the reasons 2011 is poised to be the year digital delivery revolutionizes the mailing and e-billing industries. Currently, 15 percent or fewer of most company’s customers have gone paperless, even though many more pay or interact online. Considering it costs $36 billion a year for businesses to distribute their transactional mail – it’s no longer a matter of ‘if’ businesses will partner with services like Zumbox, which directly address consumer pain points with regard to paperless mail, but ‘when’ and ‘with whom’.
At Zumbox, we’re excited for what 2011 has in store for us as a company. We’re expecting record growth, as announced today in a press release on our 2011 outlook. We recently raised $9.7 million in new financing and announced strategic alliances with major mailing houses including DST Output and KUBRA. These relationships alone enable Zumbox to deliver postal mail from more than 1,000 mailers directly – and digitally – to consumers in 2011.
Closing his piece, Tim notes, “If these new models can also help consumers manage their chaotic lives, the stars just may align to make 2011 the year we go or begin to go paperless.” At Zumbox, we couldn’t agree more.
