Comments on: Zumbox: Direct Your Snail Mail To A Digital Mailbox http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/zumbox-direct-snail-mail-digital-mailbox/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob Reed http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/zumbox-direct-snail-mail-digital-mailbox/#comment-89106 Rob Reed Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:45:04 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/?p=9853#comment-89106 It's a great article. Just a few points of clarification. When you claim and secure (sign up for) your Zumbox, this does not automatically forward your USPS paper mail. Nothing about your USPS mail changes when you sign up for Zumbox. At least not until you and those who send you mail take the necessary steps to transition that mail to paperless via Zumbox. You're right that companies (mail senders) have to sign up in order to send digital (paperless) mail via Zumbox. But it's entirely up to those companies and their customers to decide how that mail will be delivered. Ideally, a customer will view the mail in their Zumbox and click "Do Not Papermail", which notifies the company that the customer no longer wants to receive the paper version...thereby going paperless. But the customer is entirely in control. It's quite an undertaking and requires that we all work together to reduce the amount of paper mail (150 million trees' worth) that is sent each year in the U.S. But we think it's well worth the challenge. It’s a great article. Just a few points of clarification. When you claim and secure (sign up for) your Zumbox, this does not automatically forward your USPS paper mail. Nothing about your USPS mail changes when you sign up for Zumbox. At least not until you and those who send you mail take the necessary steps to transition that mail to paperless via Zumbox.

You’re right that companies (mail senders) have to sign up in order to send digital (paperless) mail via Zumbox. But it’s entirely up to those companies and their customers to decide how that mail will be delivered. Ideally, a customer will view the mail in their Zumbox and click “Do Not Papermail”, which notifies the company that the customer no longer wants to receive the paper version…thereby going paperless. But the customer is entirely in control.

It’s quite an undertaking and requires that we all work together to reduce the amount of paper mail (150 million trees’ worth) that is sent each year in the U.S. But we think it’s well worth the challenge.

]]> By: kaly http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/zumbox-direct-snail-mail-digital-mailbox/#comment-89100 kaly Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:26:47 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/?p=9853#comment-89100 Sure, go ahead we can then make changes to the article as well. Sure, go ahead we can then make changes to the article as well.

]]> By: Rob Reed http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/zumbox-direct-snail-mail-digital-mailbox/#comment-89095 Rob Reed Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:48:01 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/?p=9853#comment-89095 This article isn't accurate. I tried to post a comment earlier today. Please let me know if you'd be willing to clarify a few things, either in the article or the comments. Thanks. This article isn’t accurate. I tried to post a comment earlier today. Please let me know if you’d be willing to clarify a few things, either in the article or the comments. Thanks.

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