get rid of your fax machine? Try asking your kid's pediatrician to e-mail you a pdf of your kids annual exam form, you know the one that the state requires the school to require you to require your doctor to fill out so you can give it to the school so the school can tell the state that your kid went to the doctor so they can go to the school. Try asking the receptionist to scan in, convert to pdf form, and e-mail you THAT form.
I've sent things in pdf format before that took days longer to be found, accessed, downloaded, printed, etc, etc, as it took to just send an "old fashioned" fax and be done with it. The technology may be there to get rid of the fax machine, but until everyone is on board with it, I'll keep my machine (which is also my printer and scanner as well).