Is there a city hall, (a municipality) that doesn't auto reply emails? See Detail.

How could we possibly know that?

Serious question?

There are about 19,500 municipalities in the US. Do you really think that anyone has tested all 19,500 of these to see who replies and who doesn’t?

What are you really asking.?

The OP is of course, for people who happen to know of one from experience, or heard about.

…and it’s about “auto reply” not replying.

Can you tell us why you want to know?

Inquiring minds would like to know.

Here’s my guess.

Judging from some of the off-the-wall questions that we get from @flo, she is some sort of journalist (or at least article-writer) and she is testing some of her ideas for material to write about on the folks at Fluther.

In other words, she floats an idea, we do some of the preliminary research for her, and then in a week or two some variant of what she asked and what we answered will show up in print or online somewhere.

Keep your eyes open. If you see an article about ‘email responsiveness of municipalities’ showing up, you’ll see that my suspicion is true.

@elbanditoroso I would hope that no one who writes as obscurely and nonsensically as @flo could possibly be employed as a journalist. Regardless, I think it’s more likely that her questions are manifestations of the XY problem, and her refusal to provide clarifications or answer questions about why she wants to know comes from some sort of misplaced confidence in the relevance of her framing.

Look at the wording of this question or the one about the stove. Her questions are ALWAYS worded such that you cannot quite get a grip on what she is asking. She has a talent for it that I find frustrating as hell. Yet I cannot convince myself that there isn’t something profound behind so consistently obtuse an approach to expressing yourself. I mean how do you conduct a reasonable conversation with someone who omits so many pertinent facts essential to conversation. Who thinks like that?

I don’t know regarding my city hall specifically, but I’d bet my city hall doesn’t have an auto reply. When I emailed the person in charge of voting in my county to move my voters registration she responded to me on a Sunday! Same day I had emailed her. She responded saying she changed my registration so I could vote without me having to do anything else.

In the past my local government has always been very responsive and very helpful whether it be phone or email. If I did receive any auto replies I don’t remember it, because they responded with an answer so quickly. I once wrote my representative in Congress, I think that was a standard answer, and I was discouraged. That was annoying. I might have received an auto reply at first from him, I don’t remember.

Since a city is essentially a business, I’ d think most would have auto reply outside business hours.

Emails sent to city offices in Lafayette California do not get an auto reply unless sent to a specific person who is out of office.

Most emails to the city get no reply at all.

It depends on the department. If I apply for a job I get a – Do no not reply – email within seconds.