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Best Internet fax-to-e-mail options.
Posted Sep 08 2009, 07:02 AM by Karen Datko.
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Filed under: savings, Bargaineering, work at home, consumer guide.
This post comes from Jim Wang at partner blog Bargaineering:.
I don't use a fax machine much and we don't own a fax machine at home, which might be surprising to know because I work from home all the time.
In fact, we're one of the growing number of homes that don't even have a land-line phone. We rely strictly on our cell phones. This means that even with a fax machine, we wouldn't be able to send or receive faxes.
Until now, we mitigated this by using the fax machine where my wife worked. Since she quit her job, we no longer have access to a convenient and free fax.
So what options do we have?
FedEx Office Print and Ship Center. Because I send and receive faxes very infrequently, I wanted to see what a la carte options there are. Kinko's, now FedEx Office, seemed like the best bet, so I called a local FedEx Office Print and Ship Center to find out their rates.
To send, they quoted me $ 2.49 for the first page and $ 1.49 for each additional page to long-distance numbers. To receive, they quoted $ 1.49 for the first page and 99 cents for each additional page.
Internet fax services. With the a la carte baseline, I looked at some Internet fax services to see how they compare. In general, they are subscriptions based on a sizable number of "free" faxes each month. If you exceed the included number of send and receive fax pages, then you'll pay per page. With all of these services, you receive faxes through e-mail and you send your documents online.
Here are some of the options I found:.
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