Who still owns...

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

…a fax machine? Double score if you still use it.

 

[fla4fun]

…a fax machine? Double score if you still use it.

I haven’t even seen one for a long time. I think some of the big commercial printers/copiers at my last job had that capability but they weren’t hooked up to a phone line.

I have never owned one personally, just printers that scanned to the computer so I could email documents if necessary.

 

[soccerdad72]

I think my printer at home technically has a fax feature, but I don't have a landline, so it's never been used as a fax.

 

[Genie+]

Yep my printer is also a fax and we still use that feature on rare occasion.

Can’t remember the last time I used the fax in my car though lol

 

[kdonnel]

I had to fax something last year, just used one of the many web based fax services.

I hear fax machines are still a big part of Japanese business though they are finally slowly being replaced by e-sign and PDF.

 

[easyas123]

We still have a fax machine in our offices, and every once in a while we have to use it. Believe it or not some businesses still require it as one of two (USPS being the other) ways of returning correspondence to them. Seems antiquated - but it is what it is.

 

[CdnCarrie]

We still have one at work.

 

[Meriweather]

My printer also has one.....but never used it.

 

[HannaBelle]

I own a small business, and several of our desktop printers have a fax option. We also have a dinosaur of a fax machine that we still use for 1 vendor. He does not use email, faxes only.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I do not but wish I did. In the US Dr offices and many Insurance companies plus often banks will ONLY use a fax because it has something to do with privacy laws so I am not loving dragging myself to Staples in order to use theirs, my next copier should be a fax.

 

[lanejudy]

My printer has fax capability. I think the last time I used it was a couple years ago.

 

[princesscinderella]

We still have one at our office and will use it occasionally but we also have an online fax service since we converted all our landlines to Voip instead. So faxes sent to the fax number arrive digitally in a fax mailbox that we check and we can scan documents and send files as faxes through there too. We still get insurance claim and dr orders faxed to us.

 

[tvguy]

We still have a fax machine in our offices, and every once in a while we have to use it. Believe it or not some businesses still require it as one of two (USPS being the other) ways of returning correspondence to them. Seems antiquated - but it is what it is.

I was at the pharmacy a couple of weeks ago and watched the Pharmacist pulling what I presume were prescriptions from Doctors off a Fax. And when I have had to send documents to my mail order pharmacy, it lists a fax number to return them to and does not list an e-mail.
Before I retired 4 1/2 years ago most courts required forms to be faxed for mailed via U.S. Post office. So faxes are still in use.
I know when my employer upgraded our phone system just before I retired the IT department wanted to eliminate the phone line to the business hub, which printed our faxes. I objected because it was still used. Fortunately the old phone system tracked how often specific extensions were used and the General Manager asked for that information and that line ranked right in the middle of all our phone lines in volume of use.

 

[longboard55]

I had one client, an old time carpenter who continued to fax things. Keep in mind you needed to pay for the phone number. We finally told him you need to learn email

 

[_19disnA]

Never had a fax machine at home. Once in a great while would need to fax something not business related and would go to the local Office Depot type store to use their machine. Now that virtually all documents are created in some computer system, the ability to update even .pdf files and email them has replaced the need to fax paper documents. It has been a number of years since I needed to fax anything.

Many years ago at work, faxing was common before the internet or email was widely in use. Now, it also is rarely used.

 

[easyas123]

Oddly timed thread - a woman in our office assists in the care of her brother, and he's in the midst of some health issues. We dusted off the fax machine because she had to fax over a authorization to the cardiologist!

 

[anrew]

i use faxing services at work (efax) but we don't have the machine anymore. Some people flip properties constantly, others stay put for decades. There’s something admirable about long-term ownership. Stability can be underrated these days. Markets go up and down, but consistency counts. Navigating paperwork and transfers sometimes feels like trying to track down the Unity Technologies phone number — more complicated than expected.