Do you fax?

[stevej37]

When using my bank online...they sometimes want me to 'verify my account' by sending me a 6 digit number, which I have to enter with my password.
The choices to get the number from them are email, text, or fax.
Just for a change, I picked fax, this time.

I had replaced my printer (which printed, copied, and faxed) last year.
Just now, looking for the fax, I realized my new Canon Laser Printer doesn't fax...wth!!

If I need to send a fax...what do I do now??

[KFC911]

Text it

[stevej37]

^^^ I tell people that want to text me...that I only accept faxes. Now I'm screwed.

[sammyg2]

Just use the telegraph or carrier pigeon.

[stevej37]

Lots of pigeons around here...maybe they have a message for me?

[KFC911]

Carrier Sliders .... mebbe a bit slow though

[stevej37]

^^^ At least they won't leave my car a mess...like pigeons do.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by stevej37

^^^ At least they won't leave my car a mess...like pigeons do.

My dad used to tell this WW II joke. (You couldn't buy a new car in the middle years of WWII.)

"What can a pigeon do that an American can't do?"
"Make a deposit on a new car."

[stevej37]

^^^
The people from that era..(my parents) always used that type of description.
Sometimes I think they were way ahead of us in smarts.

[GH85Carrera]

I started a new business in 2015. We had the great honor of getting audited in 2017 for the 2015 return. I had to buy a new color printer-copier-fax-scanner. I had to fax several documents since the opening of the company. Lots of faxes to my CPA and the bank during the audit. When we bought our Cessna 182 for the company I had to fax several documents to the bank, the escrow company, and the seller, and I had to receives several faxes. At least I can just save the incoming fax as a PDF and not print it.

So if you deal with a CPA, bank or the IRS you will likely need a fax. Technology that dates to 1843. Yep, 177 years ago.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

My dad used to tell this WW II joke. (You couldn't buy a new car in the middle years of WWII.)

"What can a pigeon do that an American can't do?"
"Make a deposit on a new car."

One of my grandfather's story of his cobbled up mail truck that he put 625,000 miles on in WWII...

[masraum]

Originally Posted by stevej37

When using my bank online...they sometimes want me to 'verify my account' by sending me a 6 digit number, which I have to enter with my password.
The choices to get the number from them are email, text, or fax.
Just for a change, I picked fax, this time.

I had replaced my printer (which printed, copied, and faxed) last year.
Just now, looking for the fax, I realized my new Canon Laser Printer doesn't fax...wth!!

If I need to send a fax...what do I do now??

buy a fax machine, go to the nearest UPS or FedEx store or stop faxing?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

One of my grandfather's story of his cobbled up mail truck that he put 625,000 miles on in WWII...

I was going to say "grandpa was a badass," but I'll bet grandpa would probably say "no, I was just doing what needed to be done."

[SiberianDVM]

Originally Posted by stevej37

When using my bank online...they sometimes want me to 'verify my account' by sending me a 6 digit number, which I have to enter with my password.
The choices to get the number from them are email, text, or fax.
Just for a change, I picked fax, this time.

I had replaced my printer (which printed, copied, and faxed) last year.
Just now, looking for the fax, I realized my new Canon Laser Printer doesn't fax...wth!!

If I need to send a fax...what do I do now??

I've got a Brother combo fax, laser printer that I'll sell you cheap, but it needs a new toner and drum, and they are NOT cheap.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by masraum

buy a fax machine, go to the nearest UPS or FedEx store or stop faxing?

Well..seeing that it's been over a year since I last faxed...I might be able to get over it..

I'm just po'd that the manufacturers have forgotten about us faxers.

[MRM]

Faxes are still used because they are the most secure form of communication available under reasonable commercial circumstances because it is point to point communications. There is no way anyone can get in the middle of a fax transmission the way that electronic communications can. It's even more secure than encrypted email because your email can be hacked without even accessing your C: drive, so a virus scan won't catch it. Any bank, brokerage, real estate company or law firm that transmits payment instructions should insist on doing it by fax with an in-person verification. There are so many money wire scams going on that no electronic communication should be trusted. Anything truly confidential should be transmitted by fax if a written copy is required.

[stevej37]

^^^ There ya go...I'm just being safe.

[fastfredracing]

I have not sent or received a fax in over 10 years. Scan and email

[GothingNC]

I can send faxes via outlook email

Microsoft Office has a feature that lets you send Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as Internet faxes. This feature relies on having the Windows Fax Printer Driver or Fax Services installed on the computer to send the faxes.

n the “To” field enter the recipient fax number, followed with @fax.com — for example the fax number is: “9195160277@fax.com“

[GH85Carrera]

To send or receive a regular fax yer also gonna need to have a land line. It almost makes me nostalgic to hear the weeeee-ooooo of the phone connection. I sure heard lots of then with my dial up modem in the stone ages of the 1980s and 1990s.