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Jun 25, 2015
the end of the era of the fax machine
One of the most frustrating things about dealing with government offices (and banks) in Israel is their insistence on having you fax your paperwork to them, rather than email it in or upload it to them in some other fashion. Most people do not even have fax machines anymore.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation has approved a law proposal of MK Miki Levi (Yesh Atid) by which government offices and public institutions funded by the government would be obligated to communicate digitally, via the computer with digital paper. The government will go one step closer to becoming a paperless government.
As Miki Levi says, it is time the government moved into the 21st century.
source: TheMarker
I hope the Knesset members votes to pass this law when it shows up at their doorstep. Then we can finally say goodbye to the fax machine. It was a fine invention, but there is a time and a place for everything. The fax machine had its time and its place, and I won't even miss it.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation has approved a law proposal of MK Miki Levi (Yesh Atid) by which government offices and public institutions funded by the government would be obligated to communicate digitally, via the computer with digital paper. The government will go one step closer to becoming a paperless government.
As Miki Levi says, it is time the government moved into the 21st century.
source: TheMarker
I hope the Knesset members votes to pass this law when it shows up at their doorstep. Then we can finally say goodbye to the fax machine. It was a fine invention, but there is a time and a place for everything. The fax machine had its time and its place, and I won't even miss it.
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It looks like you will be outpacing us here in the U.S. Recently I needed the IRS to send a document to my employer that was needed ASAP. The IRS couldn't email the document, and my employer's HR department did not have a fax.
ReplyDeleteThere is software around to e-mail a fax. Some are free, some cost.
ReplyDeleteThere's an intermediate way - paperless faxing. All my faxes go directly into my computer and I can either transfer them to a desktop file or print them out if I want.
ReplyDeleteBut being too paperless makes me nervous. When the zompocalypse starts and the power goes out how will anything get done?
I dont follow.. when the zompocalypse begins, what will you need all these old irrelevant paper records for?
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DeleteWhat about *sending* faxes?
DeleteHow is paperless faxing going to help you when the zompocalypse comes any more than any other form of digital communication?
There is software around to e-mail a fax. Some are free, some cost.
ReplyDeleteWhy Israel and Japan are addicted to fax
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-Features/Israel-and-Japan-A-fax-made-in-heaven-388350