How late is too late to send an e-mail?

Hi!

Over the past few days I've been sending some cold e-mails to people at various firms near my university, and I just now realized that I've been sending many of these e-mails after 8 or 9pm. How late do you guys think is too late to send an email? I don't even know if there is a negative connotation to sending e-mails at night, after business hours, but I definitely don't want to come off as being rude. I usually don't get home from my internship until around 7pm, today being an exception due to a personal matter, and I leave my house at 6:30am so there's no good time to send such an e-mail during business hours.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

2 Comments
 

Why not just save them as drafts, and then it'll only take a quick second to hit send, or set up a delivery delay?

I try to send mine on Friday's in the afternoon for the most part.

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