That used to be true in my country too. For some bureaucratic issues, fax was legal-abiding. For example, for health & social pharmaceutical deliveries, it acted as a valid official receipt. It improved delivery times and reduced errors. On the National Health&Edu sector, most of the secretaries were young girls and they loved to be written something after the official receipt was delivered by the fax (the first page in the call).
I would write them something as a personal sidenote, and they will do the office work like a charm.
Low-rank bureaucrats love to be addressed. These “Social skills” were not used on the official first page of course, but it worked! It saved me lots of headache and phone-drama.
You would like Japan. Fax just refuses to die. There’s the cultural notion that an email isn’t legal, but a fax is ;)
That used to be true in my country too. For some bureaucratic issues, fax was legal-abiding. For example, for health & social pharmaceutical deliveries, it acted as a valid official receipt. It improved delivery times and reduced errors. On the National Health&Edu sector, most of the secretaries were young girls and they loved to be written something after the official receipt was delivered by the fax (the first page in the call). I would write them something as a personal sidenote, and they will do the office work like a charm. Low-rank bureaucrats love to be addressed. These “Social skills” were not used on the official first page of course, but it worked! It saved me lots of headache and phone-drama.