GovDelivery and Zumbox enter partnership
GovDelivery and Zumbox have announced a partnership to aid government agencies and municipalities across the United States by reducing the financial and environmental costs associated with sending paper mail. GovDelivery is a provider of US government-to-citizen communication solutions, whilst Zumbox is a digital postal mail services provider.
Government clients use GovDelivery to send out more than 200m 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.
Digital postal mail provides many benefits for government mailers large and small, particularly when compared to traditional paper mail. Benefits range from 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 350 government clients provided they begin using the service in 2010.
More than 15m 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.”
