Yeah, my fax has broken. I’m broken.

  • Troy
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    5 months ago

    You would like Japan. Fax just refuses to die. There’s the cultural notion that an email isn’t legal, but a fax is ;)

    • Ubuntu Peronista@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      4 months ago

      That used to be true in my country too. For some bureaucratic issues, fax was legal-binding. For example, for public health/social pharmaceutical deliveries, it acted as a valid receipt, it was “official”. I noted fax used to improve delivery times, reducing errors.

      Also there was that psychological effect of paper.

      On the Health&Edu sector, most of the secretaries were young girls and they loved to be written something after the official receipt was delivered (the first page in the call). I would write them something as a personal sidenote, and they will do the office work like a charm. Low-rank bureaucrats love to be addressed. These “Social skills” were not used on the official first page of course, but it worked! It saved me lots of headache and phone-drama.