When was the last time you had to fax something

[bill_schubert]

I had a fax account when I had my business and every now and then had to use it.  Pissed me off every time. 

BUT we are trying to get my wife a new CPAP set up and they want her to fax the prescription.  Can we email it?  Yes.  So we did.  Two weeks later we call back and, no, you can't email it.  You have to fax it.

SO I'm now waiting as the fax service that I had to sign up for, managefaxservice, is 'rendering' her prescription.  I'll verify that they got this fax then cancel the service.

I did check.  The Pony Express is no longer available or we'd likely have to use that.

Comments

[anais_pf]

Doctors and lawyers are the last to keep a grip on fax technology. I last sent a fax probably on the last day I spent in the office (I worked for a medical malpractice law firm) in March 2020. I really do not understand why PDFs are not acceptable except that it's more difficult to alter a fax. But it's not impossible, either.

[taz_39]

I don't suppose you have a recent model of iPhone, but if you did, you could go into the Documents app, select "Scan Documents", then it'll open the camera, you get the document in frame, and it scans it to PDF form. Then you can send it to whatever fax number they gave you, and it'll show up for them as a physical faxed document.

[bill_schubert]

Interesting. Good feature but, no, no apple here.