Did your email get delivered?
This is my favorite time of year to send out greetings to everyone I know. My mood is elevated by connecting to people I know and enjoy, even if it is only digitally. I like that I am reminded of how I know them, the encounters of the past year and the sincere warm greetings I extend.
What I don’t like is that email is a corrupted, unpredictable tool. Today I sent six “practice” emails to myself to ascertain the aesthetics of my message. Only three were delivered to me. It wasn’t that they were delayed, it was that they disappeared into that great digital ether.
How many times, I ask myself, do emails vanish with no warning or notice to the sender? I suspect many more times than we would like to think. Because the mailer daemon frequently alerts us to failed emails, we assume we are warned every time; a false hope.
As a job search coach, I frequently use email as IM for immediate and collaborative resume or elevator pitch creation. In every case, at least one email is lost, sometimes more. It is not unusual to resend three or four times before the email is delivered.
My personal experience tells me to warn all email users: Never assume an email is delivered simply because you did not recieve a failure notice.
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