Stats about e-mail are often very depressing (** puts rifle up to scrotum **)

We already know that 89 billion business e-mails are sent in a given day (that figure is probably higher for 2014), no one even remotely contextualizes their e-mail (so that everyone assumes everything has to be responded to immediately), e-mail is a giant friggin' distraction on par with almost nothing else, and everyone's always chasing Inbox Zero -- …