I just got through cleaning out my email of over 5000 spam and junk emails, which took me a few hours. Yes, I can sort them by subject, and use a preview to help speed along the process, but this is getting out of hand.
When our office sends out an email, we sometimes get a return email asking us to verify that we actually sent it. The verification can be a simply second reply, or a typed image number, or something else.
Our own Contact Us link has helped, but many people are adding an additional Image Verification step.
In the end, email as we know it - type and send to a friend or customer, is going to come to an end (as I see it). It has become too much of a payroll cost and a time waster.
Maybe the future will require us to spend more time sending a qualified message that it will be cheaper to send a mailed letter.
And as long as people do not know how to add emails to their Address Book, that won't work either. Many of our member emails are placing our important messages in their junk folder and they're not getting what they want.
Don't be surprised to see us go to a new and slower method of communicating in the future. I think the free lunch is over.
All my best,
Robert