DST Output and Zumbox Announce Agreement to Offer Digital Postal Mail to Millions of U.S. Consumer Households

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. and WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- DST Output, a leading provider of print and electronic output solutions, and Zumbox, the leader in digital postal mail services, have entered into an agreement to provide digital postal mail capabilities for DST Output clients, which includes some of the country's largest transactional mailers. DST Output produces and delivers nearly 3 billion electronic and print mail pieces to more than 120 million street addresses on behalf of its clients every year.

Digital postal mail is generated as an exact digital facsimile of – and alternative to – paper mail.  The DST Output-Zumbox agreement will enable DST Output to offer its clients the ability to deliver digital postal mail directly to a consumer's Zumbox. In turn, consumers will have the opportunity to view, manage and store their transactional and financial mail and other documents within a secure and verified online mailbox – their Zumbox – via the Internet.

"This agreement with Zumbox will result in another important electronic delivery channel for our clients and can provide significant cost savings, especially with the anticipated postage rate increase in 2011," said DST Output's Executive Vice President of Technology and CTO Frank Delfer. "Most importantly for consumers is having a single logon to view documents that have been processed by DST Output, click through to billing Web sites where they can make payments, and archive their bills, statements and other documents securely."

Zumbox connects large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the delivery and storage of digital postal mail online. The service is available at no cost for consumers, and a Zumbox account has been created for every household residence in the United States. 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 consumers with a simple, time-saving and environmentally responsible solution for digital postal mail with online recordkeeping of documents forever, for free.

"The tight integration between sophisticated data management systems at DST Output and the Zumbox paperless postal system will deliver a great experience for mail recipients in consumer households," said John Payne, CEO of Zumbox. "The simple convenience of digital postal mail will save those consumers time and eliminate the need for bankers boxes full of paper files."

"Our clients will enjoy several benefits from this new offering, including an additional electronic presentment channel, postage cost savings, more green practices, and efficiency in the delivery of their customer communications," Delfer concluded.

For additional information, call (800) 441-7587 or visit: http://www.dstoutput.com/solutions/electronic_solutions/eaggregation/index.html

DST Output, LLC provides integrated print and electronic statement and billing output solutions to many of the country's largest financial services, communications, insurance, healthcare, and utilities companies. Last year, DST Output and its affiliates produced more than 2.9 billion customer communications, delivered throughout the United States, Canada and the U.K. via postal service, express delivery and over the Internet. We are one of the largest First-Class™ mailers in the U.S. and the world's largest inkjet systems printer. DST Output is a wholly owned subsidiary of DST Systems Inc. For more information, visit www.dstoutput.com/about_us/.

About Zumbox, Inc.

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.

SOURCE DST Output