Comments on: When to send mail http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2007/11/when-to-send-mail/ Spam, delivery, email and more Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:16:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: steve http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2007/11/when-to-send-mail/#comment-337 steve Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:05:05 +0000 http://blog.wordtothewise.com/index.php/2007/11/14/when-to-send-mail/#comment-337 <i>if everyone mailed on the exact same time on the same day, then recipients really would be overwhelmed and not answer any of the mail</i> Most of the mailers whose lists I'm subscribed to seem to think that Sunday night / Monday morning is the SUPER-BEST-MAGIC-TIME to send their mail. Presumably their cunning plan assumes that I'll sit down first thing on Monday morning and leisurely go through my mail. What it really means, of course, that on Monday morning my mailbox is full of not only anything work related that broke over the weekend, but also a whole <i>bunch</i> of bulk mail that I wasn't desparately interested in anyway, so usually none of it even gets read. There's a second burst on Fridays, but it's not quite as spectacular. if everyone mailed on the exact same time on the same day, then recipients really would be overwhelmed and not answer any of the mail

Most of the mailers whose lists I’m subscribed to seem to think that Sunday night / Monday morning is the SUPER-BEST-MAGIC-TIME to send their mail. Presumably their cunning plan assumes that I’ll sit down first thing on Monday morning and leisurely go through my mail.

What it really means, of course, that on Monday morning my mailbox is full of not only anything work related that broke over the weekend, but also a whole bunch of bulk mail that I wasn’t desparately interested in anyway, so usually none of it even gets read.

There’s a second burst on Fridays, but it’s not quite as spectacular.

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