{"id":20171,"date":"2013-06-12T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=20171"},"modified":"2016-09-21T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:14:48","slug":"need-to-send-a-fax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/need-to-send-a-fax\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to Send a Fax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even in this day and age, you sometimes need to send faxes. When is that dinosaur of a technology going to die out? Maybe when the Canadian government finally concedes that it is no more &#8216;secure&#8217; a way of transmitting confidential information than is email and allows banks to complete transactions by email? But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>The odd time I need to send a fax, I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotfreefax.com\/\">Got Free Fax<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been using this service for years and it has never failed me. You can fax up to three pages absolutely free, with no ads on the cover page.<\/p>\n<p>I prepare the fax in PDF format and upload it to the site, bypassing their stock cover page. I then get a page saying that the fax was uploaded and that I was sent a confirmation email that I need to respond to before the fax will be sent.<\/p>\n<p>The email always lands instantly. Once I click on the link for it, I get to a page saying that my fax has been queued, that I can come back and check the status, and that they&#8217;ll send a confirmation once the fax is successfully sent.<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes, I get an email saying the fax was queued and then the one saying it was successfully sent.<\/p>\n<p>In the fax I sent Monday, I asked for a confirmation by email that my request was processed and was told I needed to call the bank, which I did yesterday. They said I needed to sign a form that could only be faxed to me. They refused to scan and email it, citing privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>But get this, they had NO problem calling my mother for her fax number and sending it to her. They did ask how I&#8217;d get the fax and I replied that my mother and I work together and have a secure method of transmitting documents. *snickers* We hung up and I called my mother to give her a heads up and that she would need to\u2026 scan and email the document to me. Why fight red tape when you can conquer it? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I got the email this morning in PDF format, so it was child&#8217;s play to remove the bank&#8217;s cover page, insert my own, type in the name of the city and province in which I was signing the document as well as the date, then finally paste in a scan of my initials (to put next to the clause modifying the contract) and one of my signature. I saved the PDF and faxed it off. Bureaucracy conquered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in this day and age, you sometimes need to send faxes. When is that dinosaur of a technology going to die out? Maybe when the Canadian government finally concedes that it is no more &#8216;secure&#8217; a way of transmitting confidential information than is email and allows banks to complete transactions by email? But I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[936,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalities","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}