Zumbox is a digital mailbox and filing company that has raised $9.7 million according to an SEC filing. Zumbbox has raised a total of $17.7 million thus far. The company works with the postal system to digitize your mail. Zumbox launched in December 2008. [TechCrunch]

Zumbox is the world’s first paperless postal system. The way it works is that you enter your street address to view your mail. After that you can see your mail displayed in envelope form. You can also send mail through Zumbox too. Zumbox mail can be sent to any street address in the United States.

However it seems like Zumbox is rolling out paperless mail on a city-by-city basis. They already support New York City, New York, Newark, New Jersey and San Francisco, California. And earlier this week Zumbox started to support Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“Zumbox helps the City of Minneapolis operate more efficiently while also opening a new channel of communication with residents,” stated Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak. “Now we can send and receive paperless letters and postcards from our residents via Zumbox. The time for this technology has certainly arrived, and we are excited to be among the first cities to adopt and integrate it.”

Zumbox is a company that designed a system for converting postal letters into electronic format.  The company announced today that they have raised $8 million in funding.

The funding was provided by Art Bilger (Shelter Capital Partners), Rick Braddock (Fresh Direct), Michael Eisner (former Disney CEO), Bill Guth (Guthy-Renker), and Donn Rappaport (CEO and founder of Zumbox).

Zumbox will be officially launching their service in Q4 of this year.  Zumbox does not digitize postal mail, but allows people to select different templates that standard mail looks like.

Then you can send the mail to anyone in the world by entering their actual postal address and it gets sent to them in electronic format to Zumbox’s servers.  Zumbox will allow the person residing at the postal address to check their Zumbox mail through their website.

The concept is a bit strange.  I have my doubts that this service will really take off, but I won’t really know until the service goes public and I get the chance to try it out.