# So I need to send a couple hundred international faxes today...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-need-to-send-a-couple-hundred-international-faxes-today/324031
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 29, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-need-to-send-a-couple-hundred-international-faxes-today/324031 "2005-09-29T15:26:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-need-to-send-a-couple-hundred-international-faxes-today/324031/1 "2005-09-29T15:26:33Z")
Daunting task. We sell almost exclusively internationally at my company, and a tradeshow is coming up in October so we’re sending out announcements to all of our distributors. I already sent it as an email to the ones we have email addresses for, but there are about a kajillion more that we only have a fax number for. I’m looking at the fax machine and imaginging loading the 2 page announcement in, dialing a ninety-eleven digit international number, waiting for it to go through, etc… then doing it over again… hundreds of times… and I’m thinking, there’s gotta be a better way.
I know there are a lot of software and services out there for faxes. I know my answer lies in sending the fax electronically through the computer, preferably one time to a bunch of numbers, but I need to find the best way to do so. Googling comes up with a mile-high pile of options. Most of them don’t seem to give their international rates. It’s also hard to determine if they allow multiple recipients, etc… and of course I have no idea how reliable they are without researching for hours.
I figured someone out there in SDMB land may have already gone through this and has already found one that works well and could suggest/narrow it down/heeeeelp…?
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-need-to-send-a-couple-hundred-international-faxes-today/324031/2 "2005-09-29T15:31:09Z")
(I’m currently leaning toward eFax but I don’t want to jump into something if there are better options I could find fairly easily.)
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-need-to-send-a-couple-hundred-international-faxes-today/324031/3 "2005-09-29T15:49:47Z")
Drop me a line. I’ve got a good deal with a broadcast fax service that’s only 2 cents per delivered fax.
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-need-to-send-a-couple-hundred-international-faxes-today/324031/4 "2005-09-29T16:47:25Z")
> [@OpalCat](#):
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> (I’m currently leaning toward eFax but I don’t want to jump into something if there are better options I could find fairly easily.)
🙂
(Not-so) Coincidentally, there is now a Google Ad for efax in this thread.
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### Author:  [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-need-to-send-a-couple-hundred-international-faxes-today/324031/5 "2005-09-29T16:51:23Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#):
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> Drop me a line. I’ve got a good deal with a broadcast fax service that’s only 2 cents per delivered fax.
Surely that is the charge for faxing only. What is the setup charge for dialing the fax numbers?
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-need-to-send-a-couple-hundred-international-faxes-today/324031/6 "2005-09-29T18:45:14Z")
Sweet. 🙂 Thanks JC!