the courtesy to reply by email

[taliheels]

if i send a letter i get a 95% response rate , if i send email it drops to 50%- i thought it would have been quicker to have the courtesy to reply by email- any others experienced this? :x

[J-Nation]

No replies? how ironic!

[taliheels]

although its doubly ironic ....that you have replied...... went up wincobank hill recently in the car- bloody terryfying!- have you walked up/down it in your heels?

[asdf174]

No one ever replies to my e-mails I've stoped e-mailing people.

[Dr. Shoe]

I only friends and family or in connection with an ebay trade. If my F and F don't reply, they get told off over the phone and if an Ebay trader doesn't reply the trade stops or the get negative feedback whichever applicable. Sometimes though, I'm sending a courtesy email to thank someone and I don't expect a reply.

[sendra45]

It is odd, where I work there are folk who will email you when they are sitting next to you and others who still cant get to grips with it. The one thing that gets me is when you get an email and it is to a whole list of folk besides you. who replies? the other ones I hate are the ones that have CC'd every manager in the comapny, like they are covering their butt. They get a swift reply, but not usually the answer the wanted. I have seen one of the managers in my company just delete his 'inbox' every day, he figures that if it is that important, he will get a phonecall about it. Please rember that there are some rude folk out there that dont even see it as being a problem. hay ho, Nigel.

[Shafted]

E-mail has become so convienient that many people can get hundreds of e-mails in a single 24 hour period, in which case one could spend his life answering e-mails. In that situation one would need to sift out the garbage, and reply only to the ones that require a responce. This is especially true in the corporate environment.