In rehearsal in lower Manhattan last week, four actors and the director, Julie Boyd, received faxed pages of the script that bears the evening's name, while doing a "stumble-through," as the stage manager Liz Miller put it, of the others.
Who pays for photocopying, phone calls, interlibrary loans, faxes, page charges, reprints?
On Feb. 3, an employee in the office of Mark Hoover, Mr. Turner's first deputy, faxed 11 pages of welfare caseload analysis charts and tables to Mr. Kearney at the Milwaukee office of Maximus, according to a copy of the fax.
For example, most hotels require faxed signatures pages, which Roomblocker now provides to the group organizer in a e-signature format.
At Lonely Planet, a travel-guide company, a publishing assistant says she is sometimes asked to fax pages of company stationery to other publishers as proof of identity.The persistence of the fax has much to do with the perils of e-mail.
Its franchised stores (more than 3,300 in the U.S. and another 700 internationally) offer packaging, parcel shipping, 24-hour mailbox access, copying, printing, faxing, paging, office supplies, and other related postal and business products and services.
No longer do we have to spend three hours photocopying and then faxing six-page press releases to 150 key contacts.
