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Email Fails

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

So which is the worse email fail.

The other day, after replying back and forth with someone for part of the morning, over lunch I got 4 error messages from the remote email server that my messages hadn’t been delivered. The ones that had already been replied to.

That same night, the US Postal Service sent me an email to let me know that they had attempted to delivery my package, but couldn’t, and so I would need to contact them about picking it up. That would be the package that in fact, was delivered that afternoon. It was delivered to the office, just like I had ordered it.

So what kinds of email follies have you seen lately? 🙂

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