Re: Is Fax Dead Yet?

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:42:39 -0700, Joerg
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Jim Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:14:04 -0700, Joerg
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Jim Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:43:56 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
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"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Case in point: Yesterday before lunch someone needed to see a copy of a
document, quickly. Internet was already off, plus I had to leave in about 30
seconds. Now try that situation via email attachment. I just slapped it onto
the fax machine, keyed in the number, hit "Send", done. Took less than the
30secs I had.
Not to be too much of a foil here, Joerg, but there are plenty of scanners/MFP
machines out there that can directly e-mail a PDF from a scanned paper
document. (Everywhere I've worked in the past 5+ years now has had one...
they plug into your Ethernet network and then connect directly through
whatever your Internet connection is...)

Typing in an e-mail address does take longer than dialing a phone number,
though. :-) And you've made some good points that FAX definitely has some
points in its favor over e-mail, but I'm not convinced those are compelling
enough that FAX machines are going to survive much longer.

I have several billing situations where I E-mail the invoice, the
responsible engineer signs it off and FAXes it back to me. Then I
scan it and E-mail to their accounts payable department ;-)

Hmm, mine are nowadays very often accepted as PDF sans signature.
Overseas clients then wire the funds which costs fees but saves the trip
to the bank.

Yep. $25 + $12 = $37 typically :-(


Hmm, BofA seems to charge less. I have the fees come in three tiers:
$10, $20 and $28. Nobody has ever been able to explain to me what the
basis for that is and when what gets charged. It's pretty much like the
lottery.

Mine come thru JP Morgan Chase...

$25 originating bank

$12 on Chase's end

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