16. A computer program product including a computer readable medium having a computer program recorded therein for bulk communication of information to recipients via multiple delivery media including facsimile, email, and SMS messaging, said computer program product including: computer program code means for receiving and processing information for distribution including information regarding recipients and including information on the recipients' delivery preferences; computer program code means forming a plurality of documents from the information for distribution by merging the information for distribution with a template document specific to the delivery media, wherein a different template document is used for each delivery media; computer program code means for bundling the plurality of documents together into a plurality of bundles, each bundle formed of documents to be delivered over a specified delivery media of said multiple delivery media, wherein the specified delivery media is determined based on the recipients' delivery preferences; computer program code means for transmitting the plurality of bundles; and computer program code means for escalating transmission of said plurality of documents using a different delivery media of said multiple delivery media for each of said recipients for whom transmission by the specified delivery media has failed, wherein the different delivery media is determined based on said recipients' delivery preferences and the plurality of documents are formed again by merging the information for distribution with a template document specific to said different delivery media.
21. The system of claim 16 , wherein one of said multiple delivery media is surface mail.