“If you send something to someone’s Zumbox, it gets delivered there. If that person hasn’t claimed their Zumbox, you’d have to let them know to check it.”

It kind of defeats the purpose if I have notify my recipients that I sent them something via zumbox and now they have to register and wait for PIN number to be sent to view my mailing. If I send a mail through zumbox to someone who hasn’t signed up yet, does Zumbox send a letter or postcard via USPS to the recipient informing them they have received a piece of mail through zumbox and include a PIN for them to sign up?

12. Do Not Paper Mail Program

12.1 While a subscriber of the Services, you agree to support the Do Not Paper Mail program promoted by us and will assist us in encouraging your mail senders to send billing statements, correspondence and other media to you through http://www.Zumbox.com .

12.2 You agree to permit us to identify you in a listing to vendors and other commercial, governmental and non-profit senders (collectively, “Senders”) as a “Do Not Send Paper Mail” subscriber.

12.3 You agree that we are permitted to send to Senders, as and when applicable, your change of address information.

ALSO: I’m pretty sure on your site it says that you can send actual physical mail from your zumbox. Are you now saying you cannot?

That said, Twitter was the fastest growing site last year and has about 7 million monthly users. CNN uses it routinely, so that’s pretty mainstream. I believe it launched in 2007 at the Web 2.0 Expo.

You’re not offbase. There is a ramp-up period. Companies who send a lot of mail have a tremendous financial incentive to use Zumbox and to encourage their customers to use it…not to mention the environmental benefits. So we’ll be counting on the rapid adoption by companies, nonprofits, and government agencies to ultimately drive adoption by people. As we like to say, Zumbox is pro-business, pro-consumer, and pro-environment. Everyone wins.

The scenario you suggest with the postcard is right on target. But it won’t be Zumbox who sends it. Companies who want to get their customers to use Zumbox and go paperless will simply include that message on the paper mail they are already sending. That is the most efficient way to go about it for everyone. It’ll take some time, but we’re working around the clock to make it happen.

What relevance is there in sending mail to my entire street if I am unsure if they are signed up on the service or not? Having to go and ask everyone – I might as well give them a printed lost dog sign instead. Most “normal” streets in America will be filled with people who will not utilize such services for at least a few years if it ever catches on with the tech-savvy crowd.

Why would you charge a business 5 cents to send mail to a list if the person is unsure if the list even has Zumbox?

I think that it might be useful to make some kind of paper postcard to send to people who get Zumbox mail so they at least might be curious enough to check it and increasing the possibility of sign up.

After just sending a few postcards to some friends using Zumbox, it makes me feel dumb now knowing that I have to e-mail them letting them know they have “digital mail.” Am I totally offbase?

If a company that regularly sends you paper mail lets you know (via that paper mail) that they’ve also sent a digital version to your Zumbox, it’s pretty straightforward. You just go to Zumbox.com and enter your address. There it is. So it’s quite accessible with a minimum of tech savvy.

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1117/twitter-tweet-users-demographics

I have little hope for people over 45 years old to adopt this service.

Best of luck, I will tell all my friends to join.