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My employer was moving us to a new office, right before the pandemic, it's not seen much action, but... there's a fax machine. I doubt any of us would use it, but it comes with our corporate really estate package. Just in case you need to send a fax to Japan... or some hotel?

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15 years ago, the office I worked in received daily menus via fax from local delis and restaurants with their specials, in case we wanted to get lunch. I have no idea if this is still a common practice but it seemed to be at the time.

This even had the slight benefit over sending email to a random address because a fax can just be posted on a common board in the office space, rather than someone having to take the step of printing the email first.

Perhaps. Whatever, it sounds comforting and fun. I've heard they have a colour (!) fax machine at almost every home Japan. If I moved into an office which had one, I would actually contact somebody there and have fun sending hand drawn pictures to each other :-)

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