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First post, woo!

I've been bogged with work during the weekdays, so I finally had time to wrap up my covers for mass mail. Is it cool/smart to email my applications to a recruiting office on a weekend? Any possible downside of this that I haven't though of? Little worried that if I send it today, their inboxes will fill up with other stuff over the weekend, and my application might fall into the abyss by the time they get to it on Monday (or later). This is when I have the time, though.

I don't think it's a problem whatsoever. But if you're worried about it just write all the emails now, save draft, send Monday morning.

Briney Spring Gun wrote:First post, woo!

I've been bogged with work during the weekdays, so I finally had time to wrap up my covers for mass mail. Is it cool/smart to email my applications to a recruiting office on a weekend? Any possible downside of this that I haven't though of? Little worried that if I send it today, their inboxes will fill up with other stuff over the weekend, and my application might fall into the abyss by the time they get to it on Monday (or later). This is when I have the time, though.

You can use scheduled emails for this. I use a mac and bought chungwasoft's SendLater plugin.

I originally bought it for sending professional/academic emails when I'm up at 3AM but would prefer that the recipient not know that. I also ended up using it for mass mail as well, sending them about 8:45 AM so they're at the top of the inbox in the morning.

One thing is that your computer has to be on (and awake) at the scheduled time, so I just leave my macbook open with the mouse in the "never sleep" corner, but turn the monitor all the way down.

ETA: But yeah, as was said, sending weekend emails is not really a problem. My original use of the plugin was to avoid that 3 AM timestamp.

BVest wrote:

Briney Spring Gun wrote:First post, woo!

I've been bogged with work during the weekdays, so I finally had time to wrap up my covers for mass mail. Is it cool/smart to email my applications to a recruiting office on a weekend? Any possible downside of this that I haven't though of? Little worried that if I send it today, their inboxes will fill up with other stuff over the weekend, and my application might fall into the abyss by the time they get to it on Monday (or later). This is when I have the time, though.

You can use scheduled emails for this. I use a mac and bought chungwasoft's SendLater plugin.

I originally bought it for sending professional/academic emails when I'm up at 3AM but would prefer that the recipient not know that. I also ended up using it for mass mail as well, sending them about 8:45 AM so they're at the top of the inbox in the morning.

One thing is that your computer has to be on (and awake) at the scheduled time, so I just leave my macbook open with the mouse in the "never sleep" corner, but turn the monitor all the way down.

ETA: But yeah, as was said, sending weekend emails is not really a problem. My original use of the plugin was to avoid that 3 AM timestamp.

Awesome, I feel like that would come in handy alot. I'm going to download it.

(By the way, lawyers need to get up on their tech. Was talking to two attorneys this summer at an event who were complaining that HAD to be at their desks at 11:50 PM that night to send out documents right at 11:59, so that the other firm wouldn't be able to do anything about it until the next day. I don't remember the type of email, but it seems like this program would have helped them alot.)

BVest wrote:

Briney Spring Gun wrote:First post, woo!

I've been bogged with work during the weekdays, so I finally had time to wrap up my covers for mass mail. Is it cool/smart to email my applications to a recruiting office on a weekend? Any possible downside of this that I haven't though of? Little worried that if I send it today, their inboxes will fill up with other stuff over the weekend, and my application might fall into the abyss by the time they get to it on Monday (or later). This is when I have the time, though.

You can use scheduled emails for this. I use a mac and bought chungwasoft's SendLater plugin.

I originally bought it for sending professional/academic emails when I'm up at 3AM but would prefer that the recipient not know that. I also ended up using it for mass mail as well, sending them about 8:45 AM so they're at the top of the inbox in the morning.

One thing is that your computer has to be on (and awake) at the scheduled time, so I just leave my macbook open with the mouse in the "never sleep" corner, but turn the monitor all the way down.

ETA: But yeah, as was said, sending weekend emails is not really a problem. My original use of the plugin was to avoid that 3 AM timestamp.

Was it worth it to buy the license? Works without paying for it too ...

yeah its pretty common sense to send it monday morning. you always read the newest emails first, no?

just from personal experience, i got an interview from doing something similar, got a response only an hour later. pretty sure before the other emails as well.

Agree w/ others about scheduled sending. I use Boomerang for Gmail - free and works well. For mass mail over the weekend, I just schedule everything to send @ 9 on Monday morning.

Mredav44 wrote:Was it worth it to buy the license? Works without paying for it too ...

Don't remember. Must have been a reason (annoying nag screen or limit on scheduled emails.)

As for relying on it for must-send-by-deadline emails, I'm not sure I'd trust it without backup (maybe have it bcc me so that if I didn't receive it I would have time to vpn in.

Great thread. Just checked and learned that Outlook comes with the “delay” feature. From here on in everyone at the office will think I am up at 7AM. Thanks.

twenty 8 wrote:Great thread. Just checked and learned that Outlook comes with the “delay” feature. From here on in everyone at the office will think I am up at 7AM. Thanks.

Careful, I think it'll show the time you arranged it--not the delivery time--in their inbox for some reason. I googled when I was looking into this before.

mushybrain wrote:

twenty 8 wrote:Great thread. Just checked and learned that Outlook comes with the “delay” feature. From here on in everyone at the office will think I am up at 7AM. Thanks.

Careful, I think it'll show the time you arranged it--not the delivery time--in their inbox for some reason. I googled when I was looking into this before.

I checked it thrice, and it all looks like it was sent at the delay time. No telltale sign of when it was prepared. Sent to my office and two of my other emails (including gmail). All looks legit. Plus I found out that I didn’t have to use their suggested times but instead I could change 7AM to 7:07, etc. it does make me wonder if some of the early AM emails I've received were really early AM emails..lol.

If you like the delay email you might try the delay text app… it came in handy for me on a couple occasions.