Is it rude to send a late night email to a business?

I run my own business and receive emails at all times however I don't look at them until I want to

That's the joy of email

If she doesn't want to get notifications at night she should turn it off.

Wtf who gets annoyed by emails in this way??? I’m with you OP it’s not rude and it’s why emails are so great you can send at all times of the day. It’s not like you tried to phone them!

Of course we all know that but thats not what I was replying to, I was wondering if there is some kind of accepted approach that I might be unaware of.

Its not a conversation I've had in RL and on here opinion is always split

Well if they choose not to use that functionality that's on them really. There are lots of alternatives if they have elderly parents. Also they must be getting constantly disturbed by emails from random sources

I do this too. Possibly they have an alert for customer emails going on so they always ping.

you're right, this is the mesg from you I was replying to. Telling the op it's bonkers to extrapolate anything- she wasn't extrapolating... she was talking about one particular small business.

You also said, "no big deal", she didn't say it was. She just wanted to know what others thought about it.

That’s a her problem!! I woke two jobs, most personal emails are sent at 2am. D send another one apologising and taking my business elsewhere.

I wouldn't even schedule the work emails. Lots of people work at odd times. If we're both only working evenings it just adds a pointless delay.

It's up to people to manage their emails. I don't have any email notifications on day or night and phone is set to no notifications at all between 10 and 7 unless it's my parents phoning

Ridiculous and completely self defeating if you run a business. I get dozens of emails overnight from everyone from my gas supplier to people marketing clothes.

No one forces you at gunpoint to open email at 2am.

People are becoming very precious about electronic communication these days. You can’t avoid it but email is far less intrusive than most forms of communication.

I wouldn’t use this person again.

Actually i think it is rude to send business emails at weekends ,or at night
Certainly would never tell a client that
When working out of hours I schedule emails to go the following morning

If getting emails at night pisses you off then yes you'd be sensible to turn off notifications for your business email at night

YANBU - strange behaviour by the business owner.

The bakery person is being ridiculous. My inbox is full of middle-of-the-night e-mails from my bank, brokerage firm, insurance companies, credit cards, utility companies and various online merchants. Do I care? Of course not. I'm not a nut.

Good job she doesn't do my job. I work with students who like to do most of their communicating between the hours of 11pm and 3am and usually after they've had a beer or two.

I count my lucky stars when they stick to email and don't revert to WhatsApp or Text.

It never fails to amaze me how aggressive some replies are here on MN when the OP is about the most innocuous thing.

Appreciate that 😁 we have one and the amount of people who message at all hours, also often expecting a fast response. We get a loud ding and it’s very disturbing.

But generally for emails, any time should be fine to send them. I have work contacts all over the world, if we had to keep to certain hours nothing wound ever get done.

If someone is getting annoyed about receiving email out of hours it doesn’t sound like they have the necessary skills to run a business. (especially in the UK where many businesses still choose not to have instant messaging/support and often take a couple of days to respond!).

It's not a newsflash. I am aware not everyone is aware they can turn off notifications for certain apps.

Esp as this is quite clearly what happened.
The business owner is on the wrong for being rude about it and has likely lost a customer and will lose more if she doesn't think "gee, if only there was a way to stop my phone from giving me notifications about emails as it's rather distracting."

Entirely her problem. I get emails from courier companies that are delivering stuff at all hours of the day and night, had one at one minute past midnight this week another at 5am. She should mute her phone.

That’s a bizarre reaction to an email. I work for a small global business and I get emails literally 24 hours a day from different bits of the world. I only read/respond to them in my UK working hours though!

I have a small business, and late night emails don't bother me. I know what it's like to suddenly remember something and have to send it there and then before you forget, especially if it's something that's custom made. If someone expected an immediate reply that's different, but you didn't do anything wrong.

She doesn't sound too pleasant to deal with and won't retain much of a client base with such a bad attitude.

Eh? I'm not asking her what her point is, she said she was ND so I'm clarifying that there is no universal answer to the question. Have you quoted the wrong post?

I am a night owl. I use delayed sending so I look like a lark up at 7.30 am. I delay the sending of the email message to 7.30 am even if I wrote it at 2.30 am.

No problem with that. It's the beauty of email.