Forget about LinkedIn supposedly buying News Corp (or is it the other way around), Tim-Berners Lee’s ephiphany, some newly discovered Windows XP bug or the Kindle. This is a tale of raw innovation that will knock you of your feet, and coming from De Post no less. You may have guessed that De Post is the national postal delivery service here in Belgium.
eXbo, a 100% subsidiary of De Post, has claimed ownership over a stunning innovation in postal delivery. Years of research have led to the inception of the Digital Mailroom, which is bound to change the mailing behaviour within many organizations around the world. From the website:
eXbo assists you in improving the efficiency with which you manage all of your document flows, be they incoming, internal or outgoing documents.
Thanks to ‘Click & Post’, its newest innovation, you can now send all your incoming AND outgoing e-mails, as well as any internal document to the eXbo Digital Mailroom, and they will take it from there. They will use a process for reproducing text and image - typically with ink - on paper using a printing press, also known as printing in some parts. This will enable you to have your e-mails physically available to you on an actual piece of paper! Needless to say, this can be done both in colour or in black-and-white. Furthermore, eXbo can process and archive your mails and documents, frank them and make sure they get to where they belong (within 48 hours no less).
The service is restricted to companies at this point, but word on the street is that eXbo will soon be offering services to individuals as well. Soon, you will be able to have all those e-cards you want to send for the holidays delivered on paper. Or you can bore your friends with Facebook Application requests and Plaxo Pulse spam notifications very slowly just to bug them even more!
Update: ok ok, to be honest, it’s not so much about printing out e-mails, but more for processing large quantities of postal pieces (direct mails, brochures, etc.) without the need of having stamps and envelopes in your office. I’m sure it will be useful to some organizations and so on. But it was too much fun writing it like this 
(Via Datanews)
