Delayed incoming mail issue

I'm having a problem with incoming mail being delayed (selectively) to my wife's iPad. Yesterday, for instance I sent an email to my wife (same provider, different account). On our home PC (Outlook 2007), the mail arrived immediately, as it did on my Android phone and my wife's Blackberry. It arrived on her iPad almost exactly 12 HOURS later. It seems to be random. Any thoughts? The iPad was on the whole time and other emails were being received apparently on time. It seems like it can't be a provider problem, since the emails were received right away on 3 different devices.
I can't see a pattern as to why certain emails get delayed a long time. It's a 64GB iPad with retina display - wifi and cellular.

It's most likely an email syncing issue on the iPad itself, I would definetly try to remove your wife's current email account that is linked onto the iPad and re-link it as necessary. That should refresh the login information that is used to push mail to and from accounts. It might also be a wifi issue as the iPad needs to connect to the internet in order to receive and subsequently send mail.
1. Try removing the email account and login again.
2. Check if the iPad is connected to the internet as it may have dropped the signal and reconnected 12 hours later.
3. Try a system reset if the issue persists or possibly close the mail app (if it's been running) and restart the iPad as need be.
Hope this helps!

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