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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.

I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

I used to get, like, 2,000 letters a week at one point.

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.