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I really love the comparison between the CTA/Pitch of Zumbox compared to EarthClassMail.com. EarthClassMail is also not free, and also is far to involved to get me to be excited and sign up.

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Zumbox and ECM are very different. With ECM, you purchase a mailbox and get a real postal address in many destinations (USA and others). With every letter that is sent to your address - you get an email notification with a scan of the envelope. You can instruct ECM open and scan the content of your letter or you can instruct them to recycle it instead. It's a very convenient service because it saves you the need to handle paper mail.

Zumbox offer a new marketing approach. They try to get people to sign up and try to get marketers to send mail to those who registered. I guess their ultimate goal is to render the USPS worthless.

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