Have you thrown away your fax machine yet?  There are so many great services out there today that the need for a traditional fax machine is no longer necessary.

For the last 4 years my fax number has also been my home telephone number.  On Monday-Friday during business hours when you called our home you received a fax tone delivered by my HP all in one fax/scanner and copier.  This drove my wife nuts!  So this morning we had it out and I ended up getting an efax type of service from one of the online providers.  I now have a toll free number to give my customers should they ever need to fax a document to me.  From now on if you call the Thonus household at 10:00 am Monday through Friday you’ll get a voice mail asking you to leave a message.  I usually don’t answer the home phone since I don’t ever get calls on the home phone.  This also really get’s under my wife’s skin.  But I’ll maybe cover this in another post.

If a study was done today, I would guess that the American business community probably scans and e-mails more documents then faxes.  Amy Henst states in her April 2010 blog that faxes are more secure than e-mail for quite a few reasons.  For fun, take a look at the comments to her blog – there are a lot of people that hate fax machines!  Here’s sort of a funny blog – “Why I hate fax machines”.  There are more than 1,600 people that like Facebook page - “I hate when my parents take away my fax machine”.  This is a very funny spoof on the box.  Sascha Segan had it right a few years ago when he wrote his PC Mag article titled “Death to the Fax Machine”.

In any event, my hatred of the fax machine really started this morning when my wife got testy with me about the fact that I still used an older style traditional fax machine.  Case closed!

If you’re a small to medium sized business looking for options to replace your traditional fax machine, contact a carrier agnostic agency today to inquire about your options.

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