Comments on: Zumbox Is Not Another BS “Paperless” Mail Option. Here’s Why.

By: jasonfryer

jasonfryer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:23:27 +0000

Zumbox can't get off the ground. They've been at it a year and have 0 traffic on their site. Check it out for yourself. Besides, the USPS will probably launch something digital in the next few years that will handle all the junk mail people receive and bills. Most of the mail people get, they don't even want or need. Why do I want it digitally?

By: Chris Bauer

Chris Bauer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:21:46 +0000

I think it's a great idea, but there is much work to be done to: 1) prove to potential users that it is secure and 2) going to make their lives easier. The ECO aspect is cool for some people, but many others will not care. As many others have mentioned, getting a critical mass of users is crucial; however, I think they have developed a genius strategy by offering the service free to municipalities and others who are just sending billing/account info. Every org or company who sends a bill would, of course, rather that activity cost them nothing than it costing them printing and postage. And nobody escapes municipal utilities, so getting them to sign up and encourage usage will get you to a critical mass…if they can convince them of the points I made above.

By: Brian S.

Brian S. — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:12:57 +0000

Waste of investor's money.

It will be obsolete before it will gain any market traction.

By: Carl K

Carl K — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:27:10 +0000

Yup, sounds great. So, I'll get my water bill from Zumbox instead of into my current email account (my city has already gone paperless), and because they'll be set up to send ALL my notices thru Zumbox, when I sell my house and forget to turn off the Zumbox email, the city will shut off the water because the new owner won't be paying the bill they don't see. Same goes for the property tax bill (still get that one by mail). Heck, I had one tax bill make it through to the tax sale when I bought my house, and that was with a piece of paper coming to my door.

No thanks. I've signed up for electronic delivery of all my bank statements and utility bills already. I'm not going to unwind my multiple logins. I have to have all the individual account logins anyway for various proprietary account management needs, so this just adds one more place to log into and doesn't really appear to remove anything. The stuff that still comes to the door by paper SHOULD come to the door by paper. And, I feel a little more secure having individual logins to my various accounts (different passwords and user names on all of them) because if one bank gets compromised, the others won't

By: Bec

Bec — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:10:11 +0000

I love the idea of being paperless for bills, advertisements and other notices but I love my monthly catalogs. I think retail sales would go down if catalogs didn't come and remind you to buy,buy,buy…

By: treeslayer

treeslayer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:53:05 +0000

Trees deserve to die, think of all the countless poor electrons that are hurt by this! All that wasted energy…

By: Andy S.

Andy S. — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:52:06 +0000

Just another gimmick –

By: postalsanity

postalsanity — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:26:49 +0000

Zumbox is a very promising model and it will take off, once a critical subscriber mass has been reached. Many companies are desperate for savings and will start giving credits to consumers for making the switch to digital. The problem with going digital has been that consumers have to manage countless online accounts, which becomes tiring. With Zumbox I only have to manage one account. What a relief! Companies going paperless don't need to know my e-mail address, just my physical address. All this provides the means for a rather painless switch to digital mail. I have posted more details in a blog entry.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:33:32 +0000

why are paperless mail services BS? i think they sound amazing…

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:30:24 +0000

No thanks. Just another way to de-personalize my life. Besides, I like my letter carrier!

By: Paul J. Pfiffner

Paul J. Pfiffner — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:23:40 +0000

I still love to receive mail in the
mailbox outside. Not looking to try
this company in the near future.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:04:01 +0000

Future generations probably will use this type of communication all the time and think nothing of it. Just like cell phones. Remember when you first had a cell phone and it was a big deal? Now everyone has one. The ones just being born today might very well be reading about the postal service in their history books, or I should say their computers.

By: RC

RC — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:42:00 +0000

“locked behind our countless banking passwords”

Yeah, remove as many passwords as you can. Why not make it that much easier to hack into your accounts. FYI, there is no such thing as “secure” anything on the net. 60% of identity thefts occur from online bill paying and such.

By: Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:05:39 +0000

Count me out…cant get my packages via make believe….don’t want someone compromising my mail!!!! Easy identity theft!!!!