Facsimile is Retiring
This is the year the fax machine needs to retire. Not just the machine, which I haven’t used for awhile now in favor of an Internet faxing service, the whole idea of sending documents over a phone line.
The fax changed the way many companies did business. No longer did you need to mail official documents and wait days for them to arrive. Now you could send them instantly with a press of a button.
The Internet has replaced any need for a fax. I know what you are thinking, “But Chris, what about signed documents?” A fax machine is just a scanner that sends the documents over the phone line. Nothing is stopping anyone from scanning to a computer and emailing it instead.
So if you work one of those companies that are still living by a fax machine, please start accepting these documents by email. I would love to cancel my fax service by the end of the year so it can retire peacefully in Florida.