Designed for large organizations that send transactional mail to consumer households, the DPM Gateway provides direct, secure access to the Zumbox postal network. The appliance manages digital delivery with a simple interface, without the need for custom IT integration work. It delivers detailed reporting about mail recipient usage, including paperless requests, views, payments, printing and discards.

By diverting files headed to print, mailers can immediately push 100% of their files to Zumbox for delivery. This provides the lowest cost possible for delivery to the Zumbox postal network. Delivery of digital postal mail is free. Mailers only pay when users suppress paper, ensuring that any cost comes from real savings.

“A cost-saving alternative to paper mail, digital postal mail has been adopted and deployed by many leading technology and print service providers in conjunction with other physical channels,” said John Payne, CEO of Zumbox. “We’re now seeing demand for increased savings by large mailers who operate their own mail centers. This appliance is the perfect solution for them, enabling large mailers to offer a digital delivery channel to consumers that dramatically increases paper suppression rates and lowers postage costs.”

The DPM Gateway achieves three goals for in-house production mailers: (a) rapid, low-cost deployment with almost no IT resources required, (b) a highly secure, encrypted channel for digital distribution accessed inside the corporate network rather than “in the wild” over the Internet and (c) powerful reports and APIs that provide insight into paper suppression, consumer interactions and other consumer mail response and usage details.

Digital postal mail is an exact facsimile of paper mail, created from a diversion of the print stream before it reaches a mailing system. Zumbox archives and presents mail to consumers in a secure, central online environment, instead of on paper, forever, for free. Zumbox has created a digital mailbox for every street address in the US, connecting large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the secure, on-time delivery of postal mail online. Ultimately, Zumbox gives consumers increased flexibility in where and how they receive, manage and store their postal mail.

In May of 2010, Zumbox announced the availability of its Zumbox Platform as a locally deployable, carrier grade, white label software solution for license by postal authorities and commercial entities worldwide. In August, Zumbox introduced the next major version of its Zumbox Platform, Zumbox 2.0, which includes High Volume Transactional Output APIs, the Zumbox Mobile Reader and other new capabilities that are now available under the Zumbox Platform licensing program.

Additionally, in recent months Zumbox has announced important agreements with DST Output, a leading provider of print and electronic output solutions, Crawford Technologies, a leader in print-stream transformation and document re-engineering software solutions, and GovDelivery, the leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions. These partnerships represent major milestones in further developing Zumbox’s digital postal system in the United States.

“Our focus on street address based digital mail systems enables a gradual migration by mailers and consumer recipients,” said John Payne, CEO of Zumbox. “Most businesses have 100% of the street addresses of their customers and less than 20% of their email addresses, many of which are bad. Digital postal mail directed by street address is a logical migration for postal agencies as a complement to their core, paper delivery offerings.”

As part of the World Postal Business Forum, organized in association with the Universal Postal Union, Mr. Payne will explore in more detail the importance of street addresses in digital postal services in a session titled “Physical or digital postal mail – same address for delivery” on Friday, October 8, 2010, followed by a panel discussion.

To schedule a meeting at Post-Expo with Zumbox or for other inquiries regarding the Zumbox Platform, please contact Adam Schneider, VP and General Manager of Zumbox Software at adam@zumbox.com.

TORONTO & WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Crawford Technologies Inc., a leader in print-stream transformation and document re-engineering software solutions, and Zumbox, the leader in digital postal mail services, today announced a partnership to provide Zumbox enablers that will enable digital delivery via Zumbox as an integrated alternative output channel for their customers. The CrawfordTech Zumbox enablers will make it fast and simple for print service providers and large mailers to take advantage of digital delivery via Zumbox due to the enablers’ ability to support Xerox Metacode/LCDS, AFP, Postscript, PDF, PDF/A, PCL and Line data print streams.

CrawfordTech’s President, Ernie Crawford, will be speaking about how organizations with legacy print streams can leverage new technologies and output alternatives like digital postal mail during his “Legacy Print Streams: What’s the Big Deal?” session tomorrow, September 15 at 10:00 a.m. at the Document Strategy Forum in Chicago, IL.

By offering digital postal mail output, mailers can benefit from enhanced paper suppression programs that deliver cost savings of as much as 75% compared to production and delivery of paper mail. Print service providers gain a competitive advantage by adding digital postal mail to their portfolio of paper suppression solutions and benefit from a shift of relatively low gross margin print and mail solutions to much higher gross margin data services.

“Making it easy for our customers to implement digital postal mail as an alternative output stream is an exciting enhancement to our overall solutions,” said Ernie Crawford, President of Crawford Technologies. “Digital postal mail enables large cost savings, a “green program” and improved customer communications for mailers and an important new product offering for print service providers that use our solutions.”

Digital postal mail is an exact facsimile of paper mail – created from a diversion of the print stream before it reaches a large mailing system – that is presented and archived digitally for consumers in a secure, central online environment instead of on paper. Digital postal mail is environmentally friendly, creates significant cost savings for mailers and provides consumers with a simple, time-saving and convenient channel to receive, interact with and archive their household postal mail forever, for free.

“The Zumbox enablers from CrawfordTech will vastly simplify implementation of digital postal mail,” said John Payne, CEO “The ability to quickly deploy digital postal mail with low integration costs and fast time to market will be a great benefit.”

By offering a complete solution for the delivery and storage of digital postal mail, Zumbox eliminates the need for mailboxes, file drawers and bankers boxes with a central, secure digital repository for mail and documents based upon household residence address.

CrawfordTech, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, produces award-winning software used by numerous international government agencies and the world’s leading banking, insurance, telecommunications, utilities and service provider companies.

The Zumbox enablers are available immediately from CrawfordTech.

About Crawford Technologies Inc.

Since 1995, Crawford Technologies’ award-winning solutions have helped over 700 companies around the world reduce costs associated with communications processes by delivering bills, statements and other mission-critical transactional communications to their customers in the format they need, when they need it. This includes alternate format documents in Braille, Large Print, Audio and E-text for visually impaired and print disabled customers. With CrawfordTech’s range of unique software products and services, our clients simplify, automate and extend document delivery cost effectively – irrespective of current, legacy or future standards in infrastructure or document output.

These clients, including four of the top five US banks, four of the top five US insurance companies and four of the world’s top five car manufacturers, are realizing high-value results as costs associated with document processes are minimized through automation, new opportunities for savings across critical communications are realized and they react quickly to changes in regulations, policies, business requirements and technical infrastructure.

CrawfordTech’s quality software, expert support and print business knowledge help clients to meet operational, service, marketing, legal and standards requirements and automate the delivery of billions of communications to their customers annually. Simply put, companies look to Crawford Technologies for a platform-independent approach, leading system performance and superior output fidelity. Please visit www.crawfordtech.com to find out more about CrawfordTech’s clients, people, partners and solutions.

About Zumbox

Zumbox is the world’s first paperless postal system. It connects large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the delivery and storage of digital postal mail via the Internet. Digital postal mail is an exact facsimile of paper mail created from a redirection of the print stream originally intended for large mailing systems. For every U.S. street address, there is a corresponding Zumbox – a digital mailbox – enabling mail and other content to be sent as digital files and received online. Zumbox represents a more cost-effective, convenient and environmentally responsible way to deliver postal mail. As a closed system of known, verified mailers and recipients, Zumbox provides bank-level security and complies with PCI, HIPAA and BITS security standards. For more information, visit http://www.zumbox.com.

GovDelivery is the most comprehensive communication platform supporting government-to-citizen communication through all relevant channels including email, text messaging, and social media. Government clients use GovDelivery to send out more than 200 million messages every month on a range of topics including flu reports, natural disaster updates and changes to local park hours. With the launch of the GovDelivery and Zumbox partnership, GovDelivery clients can electronically send postal mail that is specific to an address, such as utility bills and license renewal reminders.

Zumbox connects large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the delivery and storage of digital postal mail online. For every U.S. street address, there is a corresponding Zumbox, and the service is available at no cost for citizens. Users open and verify their Zumbox account by signing up and entering their residence address at www.zumbox.com, which generates a verification code that is delivered to their residence via the U.S. Postal Service. Zumbox provides users with a simple, time-saving and environmentally responsible solution for digital postal mail with online recordkeeping of documents forever, for free.

Digital postal mail provides many benefits for government mailers large and small, particularly when compared to traditional paper mail. Benefits range from dramatic cost savings – as much as $.60 to $1.20 per resident per month – to faster collections, significant increases in paper suppression rates, and better customer service.

“Zumbox is a great channel for government information delivery and is a natural extension to our digital communication platform,” said Scott Burns, CEO and co-founder of GovDelivery. “Our government clients have been asking for additional tools to accelerate efforts to reduce paper and mailing costs, and working with Zumbox allows us to offer a unique and powerful solution that is free to implement and provides enormous benefit.”

GovDelivery and Zumbox will offer digital postal mail delivery free of charge to any of GovDelivery’s over 350 government clients provided they begin using the service in 2010. Over 15 million people are signed up to receive updates from the government through GovDelivery with over 250,000 new registrations every month. Any person with a physical mailing address can sign up for Zumbox at no charge.

“GovDelivery brings tremendous expertise in serving the government market and a blue chip list of clients that will both benefit Zumbox as it expands in this new market for us,” said John Payne, CEO “We expect to have a big impact for their customers and the citizens they serve, both financially and environmentally.”

About GovDelivery
GovDelivery is the leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions. GovDelivery’s digital subscription management solution provides organizations with a fully-automated, on-demand public communication system. Organizations using GovDelivery provide citizens with better service and access to relevant information by proactively delivering new information through email, mobile text alerts, RSS and social media channels. GovDelivery’s clients include the U.S. Departments of Defense, State, Labor, Transportation, Treasury, Homeland Security, Justice, Health and Human Services, state agencies across 30 states, the cities of Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis and hundreds of other organizations across the public sector. GovDelivery is a partner company of Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE). For more information, visit http://www.govdelivery.com.

About Zumbox
Zumbox is the world’s first paperless postal system. It connects large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the delivery and storage of digital postal mail via the Internet. Digital postal mail is an exact facsimile of paper mail created from a redirection of the print stream originally intended for large mailing systems. For every U.S. street address, there is a corresponding Zumbox – a digital mailbox – enabling mail and other content to be sent as digital files and received online. Zumbox represents a more cost-effective, convenient and environmentally responsible way to deliver postal mail. As a closed system of known, verified mailers and recipients, Zumbox provides bank-level security and complies with PCI, HIPAA and BITS security standards.

Zumbox has created a web-based platform that powers the world’s first paperless postal system. The company has created a digital mailbox – a Zumbox – for every street address in the country. Postal mail can now be sent as digital files and received online, with no paper, printing or postage, and no scanning.

Zumbox represents the first practical alternative to traditional postal systems. By using Zumbox, businesses and other organizations not only enjoy significant reductions in their mailing costs, but also substantially reduce their environmental impact. Consumers enjoy greater convenience as well as a richer mail experience by accessing their mail online, going paperless, and receiving multimedia content in an entirely new and innovative way. Zumbox also represents an important alternative to commercial e-mail. Zumbox is secure (it is a closed system with bank-level security); it is based on an individual’s permanent street address as opposed to his or her e-mail address (providing greater accountability and reliability); it offers rich media capabilities; and Zumbox is spam-free.

“Despite a severely challenging economic climate, we were able to successfully complete this round of funding,” said Zumbox CEO, Donn Rappaport. “New investors include some of the most well-known and widely-respected names in the technology, marketing and entertainment industries.” Adding, “Zumbox is an idea whose time has come. We see their support as a testament to the fact that the world is ready for this new communications medium.”

Following a successful pilot in New Lenox, IL, Zumbox has exited beta and will launch the first stage of its national rollout starting in Q4 of this year. The company will facilitate delivery of paperless mail to approximately one million households in select markets through partnerships with municipal governments and media companies as well as both national and local mail senders.

“Zumbox has truly created a new communications medium, one that’s certain to be as valuable as it is disruptive,” said Rick Braddock, Chairman and CEO of Fresh Direct. “By combining the unique address system of the USPS with the power of Web 2.0, the company is revolutionizing how content of all types can be distributed, accessed and consumed.”