I had no idea that I practice inbox zero (see the link below). I truly have zero unread emails in my work inbox. I either glance and put on the back burner, respond right away, or delete. My personal emails is a different story… I let self-inflicted commercial spam go unread. 
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48271940
How about you?
My DD has thousands and every so often she deletes them all 
I practice that inbox zero thing
My problem is the ones I’ve read and decided not to delete. It includes a note from D2’s high school English teacher. Kid’s been out of college a few years.
Eight Nine Thousand. I wish I was kidding but I’m not.
901
4564 and climbing ?
Where does it say how many you have? I keep them all because Gmail’s search function is so efficient I can find anything. Why delete?
Unread? Zero.
But- I do have many saved emails that I keep for easy searching of important things.
S had 3,000 unread emails during the college search/application process. That drove me crazy.
zero unread but I use the read and not deleted as a calendar of sorts–going back 10 yrs or so.
My favorite save is one 5 years old where my estranged sister has the subject “We are Blood Sisters”.
None. I’ve never left an email go unread at work or at home once I know it is there. I also have zero notifications on any apps. I hate looking at the little numbers staring up at me.
Three-- all addressed to my husband over the past 12 hours. (He’s still asleep.)
Email is an important means of communication. We stay on top of it.
0 unread and only 3 in the inbox. I do have saved folders though.
I rarely look at anything in the Promotions or Social tabs in gmail. This keeps my actual mail from clogging up. So zero in primary, probably a few hundred in Updates that are there in case I need the information in them at some point. Thousands in Promotion and Social, usually empty them every few months. Not worth my time to deal with them on an individual basis.
I abandoned an account because the spam filter didn’t work and the entire thing was so unwieldy. I had about 100,000 emails cluttering up my inbox. Gmail stomps all over Verizon when it comes to email management.
At home I have over 42000 emails, and probably 40000 of them are unread (I couldn’t find a number quickly). At work I have over 10000 unread, and maybe 30000 total.
Email management is clearly not my thing.
Depends which account. My “real” account 0 unread with about 250 read and sitting in my inbox needing to be sorted (either deleted or moved to a folder).
Then I have my “fake” account which I use for shopping, etc. I use this one for online shopping or if if I’m creating an online account for something that’s not important. It’s where all my spam ends up. Nothing of importance here. I currently have over 500 unread and well more than that that have been opened but not deleted. Occasionally I go in delete all unread.
I have 5 email accounts, for different reasons. Thousand and thousands of emails await…
Less than 20…read and delete is my policy. If I need to save something…forever, I archive it.
I feel better already reading the numbers…
zero in all my accounts - I just delete them - hate to see them cluttering my inbox