If I Say No to a Read Receipt Will It Ask Me Again
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Nope. I've never played along with those. They are merely intrusive and unnecessary.
I concur. That person usually doesn't need to know when I opened that email message. My concern, not theirs.
Nope, hate em. Never ship em back unless it'southward actually some kind of special legal thing that needs a specific newspaper trail that is in my personal benefit to promote. And in that case I'g more likely just to immediately answer to the electronic mail.
I send them if they hit Reply to All and ship something to the entire department/company that simply needed to go to the sender. I effigy the landslide of receipts is their idiot fee for non just hitting Answer to All, but having read receipts defaulted.
Love it!
+1 for "idiot fee"!
Reply all is the bane of the universe. Seriously. I like your idea.
You are a genius!
I do that too!
There accept been a couple of people in my part who do this with every e-mail service, my mail plan gives me the selection of no longer asking me about receipts, then that'due south what I've done.
For the start few weeks I sent receipts, until I realized they did it with every unmarried email.
If it no longer asks you, information technology may exist sending read receipts by default.
This is always my business when I consider enabling that option which is why I individually say no each fourth dimension.
I actually don't care if information technology sends them every bit long equally it doesn't terminate everything to ask me almost it each fourth dimension.
Really the electronic mail program I apply allows me to opt out from the programme, it will not respond to anything without my permission. My firewall will likewise not allow an approachable receipt without my prior okay.
NO organization should allow anything going outbound without the permission of the person purportedly sending it. Ever. That's terrible security.
I hate those. I doubtable the guy in my department who does it is trying to see how fast (or if) people read his electronic mail because he thinks nosotros all secretly ignore/detest him. He's trying his best to make that truthful.
Gee I wonder why he's worried about that.
I take no idea. Everybody has been really squeamish to him and honestly, we actually exercise all like him. He has just gotten to the indicate where he tries too hard.
I had a coworker who had read receipt requests and I suspect he did that because he was the Eeyore of the part. The Eeyore mental attitude eventually got him term'd.
I send them for a certain email we ship to customers–we desire to make sure they got the information in it. Just that's information technology.
Ah, but opened does not equate to read…
Exactly, Mena! Just because someone opened it, doesn't mean they're going to read or respond to it any faster.
But sometimes, for legal reasons, you just need to plant that they opened information technology. That means information technology was received.
Exactly. That's what I use it for.
Yes. I work for a higher, and we ofttimes need to testify that we made a 'reasonable effort' to notify a pupil of a particular piece of data. When the student opens the email and sends the receipt, we print that out and stick it in their file, and so if they come up back to us and say "I didn't know about this! Yous can't hold me to information technology!" nosotros can testify them the read receipt.
Of form, we do have a few students who actually bother to read the niggling popular-upwardly window that says they tin can reject to send a receipt. If nosotros transport out an email and don't become a receipt, nosotros continue an eye on that student because historically that means there's a proficient take a chance they're a "I didn't know about this so now I don't have to exercise information technology" type.
One would think at that point, either a snail letter or a phone call follow up if the "must do" is of import enough, would occur.
And vice versa. If yous looked at my Outlook, you'd run into 765 "unread" letters. I've read / skimmed most of them, but don't mark them as read until I reply or file them away.
I reserve that for the nuclear selection, and I even explain in the electronic mail why I'm using it. Information technology actually should simply be used when information technology'southward absolutely necessary that everyone pay attention to the details of a particular email, and when it's absolutely articulate that their hide is on the line if they don't–we could go sued, you could become fired, that sort of thing. The rarity of the request alone is usually enough to go their attention.
How does that work? The "send receipt" dialogue box pops upwardly in front of the email message, and I presume nearly people articulate the dialogue box before they get to read your explanation in the email…
I include it in the subject line. The fact that I sent i at at all is attending-grabbing in itself, so they pay attention to every facet, including the subject line.
When they open the electronic mail, I instruct them to send the reply, so even if they declined they still know to answer, and I facetiously threatened a pop-quiz if at that place's no response. I helpfully CC'd a few managers every bit well, Not kidding about it beingness a nuclear option; I needed to make sure that pleading ignorance was not on the table.
Should take a period between "well" and "Not."
Maybe information technology's simply me but I get a really unprofessional vibe from that. "Read my electronic mail or I'one thousand going to quiz you on the contents!!"
If I open your e-mail, I volition read it. I'm not paid to sit here and ignore due east-mails or concerns.
It might be seen that way if *yous* did it, but I have a friendly reputation and these folks know me, then I can go abroad with the pop-quiz, and again, information technology'due south a nuclear option.
Plus, did you find the role where I said, "We tin go sued?" Aye, not kidding. The matter was important, and the reason I used the receipt in the get-go place was because our dept. head mentioned that there was an of import slip-up earlier, where people from a different shift claimed to exist unaware of an event ii of u.s.a. from some other shift had raised. Then, in this instance, the colleagues had no right to exist offended. They could get offended if they chose (they didn't), but I was under no obligation to care.
I needed to ane) Brand absolutely certain there was no slip up this fourth dimension (it would have been a very public mistake with public repercussions), 2) Give them no manner to deny responsibleness for the slip-up if it occurred 3) Ensure that the dept. head knew that I had done my due diligence.
I tend to run across them more than from certain positions like controllers, auditors, etc. I simply accept them when my direct manager uses them, which is never because he knows they're stupid. Anyone else automatically doesn't get them, just out of principle.
I really use them occasionally equally an administrative banana when sending of import information to those who are notorious for absentmindedness when it comes to email. In those cases, however, I tell myself they've earned the badgerer.
I would add a caveat to AAM'south response…if you disable read receipts or do not ship them, when you have been previously, your managing director may recollect you're not receiving the email or may ask you lot why y'all've stopped. Be prepared to explicate.
To dovetail onto this, information technology could also be you are getting them in detail because you're perceived as not responding in a timely style. I know I request them for people who do not typically respond, or when it'southward specially fourth dimension-sensitive so I tin follow upward at the appropriate interval. (E.g., if I know yous've read information technology, I'll give y'all a bit more fourth dimension to respond since I know it's on your radar.) Honestly, I would but do this internally, though.
I've only washed it when a compliance-blazon electronic mail was sent from HQ & I was forced to transport a read receipt as verification that I'd received a new policy. If its merely from a coworker, its annoying & I never send them.
I always send them back if they are requested, and I actually do think it'due south rude non to. If someone is seriously abusing them, only ask them if the read receipts are really necessary, if they notwithstanding won't stop requesting them needlessly then I think information technology's okay to cease sending them.
All the same, sometimes people send them because they really are required to have proof that you actually got the bulletin they ship (e.g. the receivables person sending a observe to a vendor, someone with a psycho supervisor, etc.), and then not sending them is really making the wrong person's life difficult.
Like Lynn, I'yard in an authoritative role and I use read receipts occasionally and unremarkably simply for when people seem to refuse to confirm details. I work in executive recruiting, then it's essential, for example, that candidates confirm they tin attend an in-person meeting with the customer at the given time and identify. Simply those who don't want to respond to me normally discover a fashion to avert sending out the read receipts. Oh well! But I would say that it's a scrap obnoxious for someone to send information technology out for every e-mail. Pitiful to hear information technology, OP!
I never ship them. I actually keep my Outlook set up to "Never send read receipts".
Me besides. I detest them passionately.
Me, too (to both hating them passionately and keeping my Outlook sent to never ship them). We had a receptionist who was paranoid that people were purposely trying to undermine her work and she started using read receipts on every email that she sent. That got old actually fast, and pretty much everyone in the office gear up their email to never send a receipt. I have never gone back, and don't foresee ever doing and so.
I recollect there's probably a most 100% correlation between people who request read receipts and people who micromanage.
That and flagging every unmarried electronic mail, no matter how mundane, with that stupid red exclamation bespeak.
What do yous think almost flagging something as depression importance? I'll do this occasionally when sending someone an FYI item or something that is low urgency and tin exist dealt with at a later appointment. But information technology still shows up every bit a flag…I'g never certain if it is helpful or not.
I don't actually use them to prioritize my life, but it doesn't bother me; the orange exclamation signal simply does because information technology implies I should be dropping everything to bargain with whatsoever the (invariably non-urgent) matter is. And if the matter truly was urgent, that wouldn't bother me either!
Aye! And in my group, it was the same person who used a red font, and an assertion betoken in every header. I finally had to tell them to knock it off, that emails from anyone in my grouping were automatically my first priority.
I hate that, besides! There is one person in my department who does this, and one time, in irritation, I started replying to her "High Importance" exclamation-flagged emails with a "Low Importance" downwardly-arrow-flagged email. I did that one time, realized I was being pretty passive aggressive, and didn't do information technology once again. But information technology did feel pretty good to do it, that i time.
It took me a while to get resensitized to the flag having meaning afterwards working at a company where every unmarried press release and self-laudatory message that issued from Corporate Communications came into our inbox flagged "Loftier Importance".
Sort of like "Breaking News" on the local television station.
With "details at eleven".
I have an associate who sends every unmarried electronic mail with the "high priority" flag, and also begins the subject of every single email with "URGENT:" It'due south incredibly annoying. My perspective is – if every e-mail yous send is that urgent – the following argument applies: "A lack of planning on your office does not constitute an emergency on my part."
Not necessarily. I request read receipts basically in two situations.
one Every bit the electronic version of " here, sign this to acknowledge receipt" of a memo regarding a modify in policy or procedure
2 With staff who accept a history of challenge that they haven't read the e-mail I sent them two weeks agone and that's why they missed the meeting etc. I don't like keeping rail of return receipts- I'd much rather people either read their email every 24-hour interval or at to the lowest degree didn't apply not reading it as an excuse.
See, in that 2nd example, I think I would address the fact that they missed the meeting. Information technology'south their responsibility to ensure they read the email and attend the meeting. Then the receipt won't do that much expert.
2 Is when I use the coming together maker – it goes on their calendar AND they go a reminder popular-upwardly fifteen minutes earlier the effect… :-)
Yes, I have to address the fact that they missed the meeting. Just I also want to address the fact that they were instructed to read their email at least once a day and aren't doing so.The absence of the receipt lets me know virtually and address that issue. Sending an meeting invitation on Outlook doesn't practise whatsoever adept if the person doesn't open Outlook for days at a fourth dimension- and aye, that is non unheard of.
I agree with Katie the Fed on the bespeak two.
Regarding indicate i, if it'due south something important similar a change in policy or procedure, I don't call up I would leave that up to an email. I would exercise this in person and get an actual signature.
I agree. On point one, if they're missing meetings and people are irritated with them or they're in problem with the PTB over information technology, then that's their misfortune for not reading their email (I'k an admin, so I merely let them go in problem with the PTB if that'southward how infrequently they're going to cheque their electronic mail). If I were in a position in dominance over them, I would address the missing of meetings and get out them to figure out that if the meetings come up past email, they jolly well should check email.
For indicate 2, if it's of import plenty to need acknowledgement of receipt, then information technology's too important for email, and I would collect signatures.
I practice use outlook to send coming together requests, because that lets me see who has and has non responded to the meeting, and it also puts the reminder on their calendars. But having washed that, I am NOT going to babysit anybody regarding whether they actually manage to pull themselves together and come to the meeting.
. . . if I mis-stated which was point 1 and which was point two, then vice versa.
. . . Except my boss. I volition babysit him regarding whether he attends meetings. Only that'southward it. Anybody else is on their own.
I actually regret maxim "meetings etc" considering it's not only meeting data they miss by not reading email for days on finish. Sometimes it's instructions that will get me or them sued if not followed. My choices are to either request a return receipt for some of the more than of import emails or telephone call them every time I send an email to make sure it'southward opened – which in my stance is more annoying than requesting a return receipt. I don't ask for render receipts from everyone, just a couple of people who truly don't read their e-mail on a daily basis. And if it annoys them , it's easy plenty for them to get me to stop- all they have to do is read their e-mail every mean solar day.
I am required to use them when sending buy orders via e-mail. It's the modern equivalent of the confirmation fax canvass. All the same, we don't employ them for anything other than purchase orders.
I employ the preview pane in Outlook. One of the advantages is that when I know that people send read receipt requests, I merely read their email in the preview pane (ergo, it doesn't send a read receipt) and and so delete the mail service if it doesn't require anything out of me. Slightly evil, I suppose, but worth it if they do it a lot.
I set outlook to never send. We accept 2 supervisors at my org who have their email gear up to automatically do this every fourth dimension. We used to have a third but after feeling like I had a adept enough rapport with her I talked her out of doing it and instead asking for people to reply to the email when it was needed. (I'm not a supervisor but I am seen as tech person that people can talk to and have a pseudo consultant function.) One is retiring soon. And now I just have 1 person to become. They make the unabridged organization wait unprofessional imo, peculiarly when you get a request for things like "Ok".
I'thou trying to make the globe a slightly less annoying identify. 1 read-receipt spammer at a fourth dimension!
Until recently, ane of my teammates requested a read receipt for every e-mail, and he sends A LOT of email.
The best advice I found for dealing with it is:
– Set Outlook to not marker every bit read in the Reading Pane
– Add a "Receipt Requested" column in your Inbox so you'll know before opening
– Read the email in the Reading Pane, so delete
– The recipient will receive a response that the email was deleted without being unread
After I generated a dozen or so of those, he turned off the read receipts.
Gah, that last bullet has all kinds of booch. Information technology should read:
"The SENDER will receive a response that the email was deleted without existence READ"
I work for a commercial debt collection bureau, and I request them when I want to know that a debtor saw my e-mail. They may be "annoying," but sometimes there'south a legitimate reason for requesting them.
Does their unreliability not thing, though? People can read emails without your getting a receipt, and you can get emails without people having read the e-mail.
I'm non sure that all e-mail clients even bargain with receipts.
That's an splendid betoken. Some of the business e-mail programs I've used over the years include them, but I don't take them on my own figurer. And so if anyone's sending me something with a "receipt requested" attached, I take no clue, and no way to send that sort of acquittance.
(I practice occasionally get a "high priority" flag, so I know my email plan has that chapters, only those are pretty rare.)
I don't use the included "read receipts" for about emails but I do inquire for replies to the effect of "I have read and sympathize ABC – " for fourth dimension-sensitive legal documents. If a person doesn't respond, I deliver a paper copy to them (desk if hither, priority postal service if non). All of the failures to respond have been technical bug then far, thankfully.
Yeah! I am a lawyer and request read receipts for legal advice that I demand to know has been received, otherwise there volition exist hell to pay.
Yes – my piece of work is legal related govt. and I request read reciepts when doing internal auditor type tesearch… with certain departments who tend to non reply. grrr!
Argggggg at my old job, I worked with a teacher who would send BOTH of the options: that information technology got to my mailbox and that I'd read it. I simply use them sparingly and in situations where I REALLY need to know that the email was seen.
Hate those! I'll send i if it's an occasional affair and they specifically requested it for simply this electronic mail, but if I get ane with every message, nope.
I hate read receipts! Ughhhh
"Oh gee, I had to ship a render receipt, I better pay attention to this message" said nobody ever.
LOL +1
+1000!
Yous accept won the internets today, Sir! :)
I think the but e-mail I would ever utilize a read receipt for would exist an e-mail firing someone or hiring someone and actually, I can talk face up to face to do those things
You don't fire someone via e-mail.
Yes, hence the last office of what I said.
The only scenario in which you could would exist if an employee goes to6tally AWOL for weeks and y'all cannot even contact them by phone.
People still do this?
At my final task, I put them every bit standard on every electronic mail I sent because I knew I'd never retrieve to set them individually for e-mails I wanted to send them on and just defaulted to all. Originally, that was for sending due east-mails to case managers informing them of changes pertaining to their customer- if information technology came back deleted-unread, I printed that and a re-create of the original email and put it in the client'southward file- if nosotros were audited and/or payment was denied because we supposedly never informed a CM about changes, I could prove that nosotros did in fact endeavour to contact the CM just the CM ignored information technology.
Then, it got REALLY helpful because my boss stopped sending read receipts (he told me was going to but then never told me NOT to do it, so I would assume he knew my reasoning virtually the CM'south) just would answer to the ones he really DID read. So, I could tell what info he actually bothered to read and which he didn't. I could and so say, "I actually did ask you- twice- if we could get to that training session; yous just didn't respond to my electronic mail."
That doesn't mean he client ignored it. Or even that they used the viewing plane to read and and then delete information technology. Deleted-unread is the aforementioned affair you volition get if your email ends upward in their spam folder.
I don't like them either (and never ship them), but if it were "an ambassador higher up me"? I'd call up twice well-nigh whether that was a fight worth picking.
We utilize read receipts at my work when sending time sensitive emails to a shared accost. We need to know asap that someone accept received (and will therefore activeness) the email. If we don't receive a read receipt in a timely manner, we call and make certain someone has actioend the e-mail. If the read receipt was read, but not actioned, we know who opened and read the e-mail, and tin can follow up appropriately.
They are useful in that respect. Otherwise, information technology's just passive aggressive.
A woman on my team would send these to me. WTF?! Oh yeah, trying to keep rail of what your manager reads, that'south a great career move. Information technology is so obnoxious on so many levels. This is coming from an employee that didn't practise her work and tried to allude that I didn't practise mine if I didn't ship these back.
She was demoted 10 months afterward.
That's how a erstwhile receptionist of ours was — she would insinuate that anyone who didn't send a receipt dorsum was slacking off on their email-reading duties and therefore not doing their task. She ended up being demoted from a short-lived promotion and subsequently fired, all in nether a yr.
I had an extremely unprofessional supplier chastise ME (the buyer whose business organization was xxx% of her company'south acquirement) for non responding speedily enough to an email she'd gotten a read receipt for simply hadn't recieved a answer on, a couple hours after she sent it. All I call back is that she needed something urgently that wasn't a very loftier priority for me, and that was how she chose to address it. (?????) I accept had read receipts turned off ever since. I don't feel that I owe anyone a response only considering they chose to send me an e-mail.
I've used Read Receipts on emails to clients when I've requested something ii-iii times via electronic mail over the period of a couple of days and it is getting shut to impacting timelines. Since I do information technology so rarely, they seem to notice and answer when I accept it on – though I rarely become the read receipt itself. :)
In one of my very first solo projects I had a client who had email issues and gave very negative feedback nearly how I didn't communicate (because they never received my emails, just I never got bounces). So I'thou perhaps more than sensitive to this possibility than I would be otherwise.
In my concern, I make an e-mail "receipt requested" when the field of study is something critical – like a concluding request for payment before cancelling the service that someone has requested just not made expert on.
That'southward the ONLY thing I use it for.
I hate those. They're rude.
I take it back slightly. I did have read receipt requests when the legal dept emailed me. I thought that was ok.
I think its rude to not transport them if requested. There are times when they are necessary (even if its just to cover your own ass). They are abrasive, only they have up a half second of your time. If someone has it gear up for every email they ship, then I can understand it. Simply if I sent an important electronic mail and requested one, which I exercise very rarely, I would be upset if yous merely chose to ignore that asking.
I would have no problem with that if I could at least wait at the electronic mail before deciding if it was worth sending the read receipt. I institute this folio when trying to determine what to do, decided ultimately not to send the receipt, and it turned out that it had a long list of recipients on it, and I was CCd; in other words, they needed the receipt from the others, but non from me.
On a dissimilar message board someone was applying for a job, hadn't gotten a response all the same and was considering sending a follow upwards electronic mail. It was suggested that she sent it read receipt. I was the simply person who protested that they are annoying and would be a mark against her. Nice to know I am non the simply person who hates them.
I've set my domicile email to never send receipts. My work account volition prompt me. If yous e'er enquire for a receipt, I'll say no every time. If it's a ane-off or a confirmation for a policy change (or something important) then I'll happily send you lot a read receipt.
And if you flag every email as High Importance and put in every asking equally "needed in 2 days", yours will go to the lesser of my queue.
I work in tech support. Some ISPs cake all new domains' incoming mail as an anti-robot spam measure. I become an auto-reply that I have to respond to then that my original email will go through. I never do it. If you contact support and want help, whitelist us. Like Jaime I have some pet peeves and that's i.
I have/will never respond to a read receipt. Especially when the email message requires me to respond anyway. Do you really need to run into when I read the message versus when I responded? How passive aggressive is that crap?
Same hither. If it's of import that I reply, await for my respond. And accept the fact that I may demand time to do some assay / clear my plate/ check something with someone before you get your reply.
If it's of import that you notified me, all that matters is that you sent it, and mayhap that I got it. If I didn't read it, the consequences are on me.
But and then I am of the conventionalities that anything important AND urgent shouldn't be left to email.
Once I had my e-mail set up and then that emails with a certain subjuct would be automatically sent into certain email folders until I could get to them. I judge when that happens, the if the sender sent a read reciept, it tells them that I "deleted without reading."
She emailed my boss' boss that I had done this. My boss forwarded to her and I replied with an caption and niggling else, just there was a lot that I wanted to say that wouldn't have been very professional.
I utilize them (read receipts) all the time with our outside clients when I am sending materials attached to the e-mail. I desire to know they were delivered and that the customer has opened the message. If I don't get a read receipt when I've sent materials, then I tin can phone call the client before I travel to their site to brand sure that everything is arranged. One time I arrived at an appointment, fifty-fifty later on having confirmed the details by telephone a few days prior, and the client had non received my email with the attachments and had non called till the night earlier, when, of course, I was out of the part traveling. So I see the usefulness, only non automatically and not for every message.
I had no idea information technology was considered and then rude to set your email to tell yous when something was read. I suppose I didn't call back about someone having to click something(my electronic mail never asked for a confirmation).
I have used the email receipts. I set it up because I was sending emails regarding a machine being down that was existence remotely stock-still(network stuff) and I needed to know when someone was looking at the problem. The email was sent to several people, any of which might exist the person to get to it that day, or might be out of the office. My location was non given a schedule and we were made to understand that emails were preferred over phone calls. If none were opened in a timely manner(within an hour) someone on my end would need to make a telephone call instead to brand certain we had time to get the issue stock-still, and consummate the daily work.
Ah, the joys of a remote branch.
I'yard so glad that I read all these comments. I'chiliad new to the business concern side of my industry and had no idea what to do with all these read receipts. They practice bulldoze me crazy and I'm glad to hear so many people consider them passive aggressive!
I set my estimator to automatically "never" send a read receipt to anyone, then I am not faced with the pop upwardly. Sometimes I print my messages to read later; therefore, I don't want it to appear that I take read the message. If you accept something to reply to on the email, ship her dorsum a reply that mode she knows you have read it equally you have responded to her. Information technology is not productive to stop and read every message immediately when you lot go it – most people flag urgent letters as so.
I actually get frustrated when someone doesn't.
When I send my employees emails I want to know that they have read them. Sending a read-receipt lets me know this without them having to respond to my email right away to tell me they received the info.
I'k a contractor and a lot of companies say they did not receive my invoice that I ship via email, which means I always demand to fight for my money. So at present I send a read receipt