If you’re checking your e-mail 24,000 times a year, what are you sacrificing? What are you not working on during that time? Could you reduce your rate to every 15 minutes (a yearly total of 8,000) and be more productive with other aspects of your job? Could you reduce it to once an hour (2,000)? Three times a day (750)?
Unclutterer has an absolutely awesome article on e-mail addiction and how to cure it. Read it now and get back in control just in time for Christmas!