We thought we would start the year off on a fun note, so here are some fascinating facts about email for you….

1. According to Google Trends, email is more popular than Elvis, the Beatles, chocolate, beer, Justin Bieber and Harry Potter…

2. If you printed out each non-spam email sent in the world on a single piece of standard A4 copy paper:

- One day’s worth of emails would produce a stack of paper 2,159 times taller than Mt. Everest

- It would take just over 20 days for the stack to reach the moon

- In just under 2 hours, you would have enough paper to cover the continental USA

- Around 4 days later, you could cover the earth’s entire surface area

3. If email accounts were people, the email population would be:

- 2.3 times the size of China

- 9.9 times the size of the USA

- 38 times the size of Germany

And finally…

247 billion emails are sent each day. That’s one email every 0.00000035 seconds…