Everyone hates long and boring email ids, especially when you are telling that email id to someone on the phone.
I felt this pain when was trying to tell my 14 char long username + @gmail.com over the phone to someone.
So I started to use in.com email service, this was pretty good, short and with user friendly website, unfortunately in late 2014 in.com discontinued this service and I stared my search for shorter email provider again.