Working as a litigator, my team has to do discovery (or disclosure as we call it here) of parties’ documents. With the advent of email this task has grown exponentially. We have just come across a guy who sends and receives about 1300 non-spam emails a day through his work mailbox, which seems rather high.
Not counting spam, how many emails a day do you send and receive, on average, through your own mailbox?
At work, it’s about 1k emails per year. Probably increased a bit recently because somebody at work is signing us up for mailing lists.
On my personal email, maybe 2-3 per day, non-spam.
Personal? A dozen or so, but they’re usually just alerts from various websites. I only have one person who I email very often as opposed to speaking to her personally or through some messenger client.
At work, god knows. Right now, during our busy season, probably a hundred or more. In the off-seasons, just one or two dozen.
At work, I receive on average 50-60 e-mails per day. I would guess that I send somewhere around 20 per day.
With personal e-mail, I receive 2 or 3/day and send 3-4/week.
I don’t know the exact number, but receiving 300 and sending 50-100 sounds about right. That 1300 guy must have done nothing but respond to emails every working second.
I receive about two or three a week and send maybe one a month. I don’t really do email that much. If I want to talk to someone, I pick up a phone.
I would estimate that I send and receive about 500 total most days. I have definitely had crazy days where I have hit 1000 but they’re not common.
Many of them are simple acknowledgements or updates on tasks, so processing them is a matter of a few seconds per - read email - update project plan which is always open - file email in correct project folder for backup.
Receive: 200-300 daily. Roughly half are kept long-term or require action on my part.
Send: 50-100 daily.
Receive: 3-20 daily. It varies wildly, but the bounds are pretty much accurate.
Send: 1 per day or less on average. I don’t reply much, as right now I work at a restaurant. Soon the number will go up.
Receive about 200 per day, send 50 or so.
I receive about 400 - 450 per day, and send about 50 or so. I do know people here at work who run through more than that, but not much more. That guy with 1300 sounds . . . prolific. Unless the organization generates email alerts every time the receptionist scratches her butt or something, I’d be wondering if the guy was trying to obfuscate something with all the churn.
My record is 158,000 for one night.
I’m in IT and we generally have automatic monitors on processes to let us know if things arn’t happening as they should. One idiot Programmed a monitor to send an email for each failed record in a batch, rather than the batch as a whole. The router went down and the job failed so it tried to send a message for each record in the job(about 2.2 million). After 158k the mail partition I was on was filled so it couldn’t send the rest. The the corporation mail server filled up it’s capacity, and crashed . followed by the rollover mail server, which crashed taking down the notification and ticketing systems.
It was a fun day.
I get about ten a day and send maybe one or two a week.
Oh gods, at work? Eight billion. Personal e-mails, maybe ten a week.
And I thought my average of about 100 received per day at work was bad. Seeing the other numbers being given here makes me feel somewhat better.