Is it normal for professors to send recs on the day they're due?

<p>Because the online forms send a confirmation, it’s easy to see how long it takes to fill out the letter. My one recommender averaged a bit over 8 minutes/school, and he’s in industry, so this may have been the first time he’d seen these forms.</p>

<p>I know it’s annoying when there’s a pile of them, but it can’t take that much longer than the paper version. You don’t have to print anything…and they would have made you check the stupid boxes anyway.</p>