Anyone here use internet fax services? Been thinking about signing up for one. Tired of wasting paper and ink and printing stuff out and running it through my fax. Back in the day I had a mac with program that let it fax off my hard drive directly from the modem. That was fifteen years ago. Shoot, if I could just plug my laptop into the phone line and do that I would. Ideas?
efax is pretty good . . . there is a fee for it though. Not sure if you're looking for a free service or something.
Most legal documents (contracts, Power of Attorney, etc.) still require a signature. So, businesses that rely on these documents still send/receive a lot of faxes. I still have a fax machine machine. It has a unique phone number, but shares a line with my 800 number. I have a distinctive ring tone assigned to the fax number that the machine automatically recognizes and picks up after the second ring. I've been using this arrangement for 12 years. It works fine, but I still burn through more toner and paper than I'd like. For this reason, I now ask business contacts if they can send me PDF or Word doc file as an email attachment instead of a fax. That way, I don't have to print out an entire 30 page document just to sign the last page and send it back to them. About three years ago, I bought a Brother multi-function machine that's a laser printer, photo copier and scanner all in one. It came bundled with scanning software that lets me scan a document and save it as a PDF. So, I print out any pages that need my signature, scan them in and email them back as a PDF. No wasted paper and no monthly fees. BNM
A few months ago, I read an internet report of some guy in Idaho that sent a letter . . . with a stamp on it and everything!
