Thu 7 Dec 2006
I needed to sign a document and send it in over fax today. Getting it in electronic form is easy. By you now most places offer their forms/applications as downloadable PDFs and the signing is easy for me to since I have a tablet PC.
It was the sending it electronically part that became a challenge. There are tons of services out there that charge anything from $10-$20/month to allow you to send and receive faxes electronically. But with my needs I maybe send fax once every blue moon, so those services are no good to me. Sending it from work doesn’t feel right either. So I started looking around and this were my findings for sending and receiving fax for free.:
Receiving - Get a free account on eFax.com and you will get a U.S. based number. If anyone faxes you, you will receive it in your mailbox.
Sending - The one I found useful for my needs was faxzero.com. It gives you two options; either send it for free (max 2/day) and it will put an ad as the cover page for your fax (see below) OR you can pay $1.99 using paypal to get it free of the ad cover page. Your choice.
And finally I found this page full of links useful. If you have other useful/free services for faxing please leave a comment.