"The Oatmeal cartoon points to a subscription email service as a way to bypass central gatekeepers of content."
Email services often have a spam filter that is not necessarily under the end user's control. Any email format that looks like it might be cloned to many people can either end up in your junk mail folder - or be silently discarded. The former on MS 365 includes invoices from several suppliers. What is totally lost is unknown.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
