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Can we please do this with fax machines in the US? They are insecure, slow, expensive, and prone to failure. Yet, they are used regularly to transmit my personal information.
You’re not gonna believe it, but a large portion, if not all, of those fax machines simply use email on the backend. I’m not joking. You fax something to a phone number and it actually gets sent via email to the other end. Or, alternatively, companies will literally require faxing between each other and it’s literally just all email.
Fax machines everywhere! :-)
Chance that they use a service to send a PDF as fax, and the recipients also use a service to receive fax as pdf attachments sent to their email address.