Cobb EMC, Gas South Offer Digital Billing Option

Two Cobb utility companies, Cobb Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and Gas South, are now delivering digital postal mail via Zumbox as an additional option for customers to receive bills.

The billing option is made possible through an agreement between DST Output, a leading provider of print and electronic payment solutions, and Zumbox, the world's first digital postal mail.

Digital postal mail is an exact digital facsimile of the paper mail sent to customers, delivered in a secure, central online environment. Users can send and receive postal mail online using street addresses.

Zumbox eliminates the need for mailboxes, file drawers and bankers boxes with a central, secure digital repository for mail and documents based upon household residence address. Zumbox has created a digital mailbox for every street address in the U.S., connecting large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the protected, on-time delivery of postal mail online. The service provides a simple, environmentally friendly place to receive, interact with and archive important household mail forever, for free.

"Digital postal mail from Zumbox can be especially advantageous to a utility provider like Cobb EMC because it will provide another efficient way to help improve our customer communications and reduce the waste associated with paper bills and statements," said Chip Nelson, president and CEO of Cobb EMC.

Cobb EMC and Gas South, together, produce 600,000 bills and statements monthly for residential, business and government customers across the state of Georgia. By delivering digital postal mail, and assuming a 10 percent increase in paper suppression, both companies could realize more than $200,000 in mailing cost savings per year.