Bad at Email

Dave Rupert complains about email:

Just because we participated in online commerce once doesn’t mean you get the liberty to email me for the rest of my life. […]

When did a ten drip email campaign for every online transaction become the standard? You bought an item → Item is getting ready to ship → Want another item? → Item shipped → Need more items? → Item out for delivery → The holidays are coming up → Package delivered → Let us know how we did → Mother’s day coming up → Father’s day coming up → Step-father’s day coming up → etc… It’s entirely too much.

I get it. I feel this same thing. But I still love email. Email is good.

If I had Dave’s email address, I’d send him one right now just to troll him. But since I don’t, I’ll write it here:

To: Dave Rupert
Subject: An Email You’ll Never Read
Body:
I know you’ll never respond to this, and you don’t need to. It’s not a TODO for you. It’s just a note saying I liked your blog post. That’s it. The end.