It is not impolite to say no, but it is when you leave people hanging. When the subject of an email is in favor to someone, you tend to get the reply earlier. When the answer is no, some people choose to ignore and don’t reply to your email - sometimes we just need an answer to move on.

It is fine to say ‘no’ in your reply and your sender will be happier than receiving nothing at all!

You may want to take a look at our related posts

• Email is monotonous
• Everyone loves to share
• Endeavour - earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
• Think the online way - even the smallest things matters
• England or United Kingdom?