Email….how hard is it?

Multiple times in the past few weeks people have either called, or come into my office, or some other form of notification, that they are going to send me an email.

Do this strike anyone else as completely defeating the point of email? Is this a hard concept for people to understand and I’m just missing the difficulty in it? I mean, I’ve sent an email with a link, and called someone to tell them to check their email cause I think they need to see what I have to show them RIGHT NOW. But I’ve never called up Billy Bob and said, “Hey, get ready, I’m going to send you an email.”

Really, I mean, this is just like, “Hey, I’m going to send you a letter, please stand by your mail box in 3-5 days for the post office to deliver it.”