How much email do you receive? Some people truly do receive too much email. Especially during peak operations time for whatever might be happening (maybe some

How much email do you receive? Some people truly do receive too much email. Especially during peak operations time for whatever might be happening (maybe some crisis, maybe seasonal business, whatever), I've many times heard someone say to some complainer, "Sorry, but I have close to a thousand in my inbox right now, and yours is just buried somewhere where I haven't seen it." I've experienced it too, and said similar things. I don't think anyone is rude for not replying to emails, especially if they're in a position to receive a lot of them. We should not attribute behaviour to malice so quickly and easily. edit: I don't want to say that I think it's nice to have a policy to not reply to emails. I do want to say that it's not good to make assumptions about what's going on. And frankly, there are some emails that are not worth replying. Do you reply to every single cold call sales pitch that lands in your inbox?