GovDelivery, the e-mail service provider that delivers messages to U.S. citizens on behalf of more than half of all federal agencies, has begun sending using Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail system.
As a result, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Department of Labor and 145 other federal, state and local government agencies have begun sending messages tagged with CertifiedEmail, according to GovDelivery and Goodmail.
Under Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail scheme, e-mailers pay a fraction of a penny per message to ensure their e-mail is delivered to subscribers at participating Internet service providers with links and images intact.
The e-mails also sport a symbol letting recipients know the message is legitimate.
CertifiedEmail is supported by seven American e-mail inbox providers, including AOL, Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable’s Roadrunner, Verizon, and Yahoo!.
According to David Atlas, Goodmail’s vice president of marketing, the government agencies that use GovDelivery are not paying extra for the service.
“GovDelivery and Goodmail worked out a deal so that the government agencies do not pay anything additional,” he said in an e-mail exchange with this newsletter. “It is just a part of the comprehensive communications service offering that GovDelivery is providing.”
Atlas added that GovDelivery took advantage of the discount Goodmail offers to non-profits in order to offer the CertifiedEmail service to its clients.
