Ditch the landline? What are the options?

cobrat
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 07:45:36 +0000

@somemom, do you use a scanner to load the pages, then send via online fax number? H sends large faxes- 25+ pages.

Wow. That would tie up the landline for quite a while, especially if there’s any transmission problems.

Even back in the early 00s’ even the most luddite biglaw partners at the firm I worked at would opt for scanning that many pages into a PDF and emailing it as opposed to faxing it.

Sending that many pages over fax is not only a huge waste of time, it also ties up faxlines and the fax minding staffer’s time better spent on other matters. Especially considering biglaw firms even back then had automatic scanners which could scan 25 or even a couple of hundred pages in far less time than it would take for a 25 or even 15 page fax to go through*.

In an early startup gig, I was tasked with faxing a 30 page document because the receiving office wasn't fully on board with using email with attachments. That took a long while and some pages ended up having to be retransmitted because of some landline/fax machine issues on their end.