I know this should be in the “where can I find” forum, but it’s Friday night and this is an emergency.
I need to fax a bunch of legal documents to the U.S. I cannot do this through my school, they have uptight policies about using office equipment for personal use. I do not speak enough Chinese to waltz in anywhere and make it a breeze.
Help, where can I go? Is there anything like a mailboxes etc. in Taiwan? What kind of place provides fax services in English? Can anyone give me precise directions? Do they do this at the post office? At any internet cafe’s? Who speaks enough English to insure they won’t make any mistakes? I can’t afford mistakes.
Anyone who can help me is a saint. Thank, you, thank you, thank you.
They don;t speak English there. Oh, how I hate myself right now for not studying Chinese more. Thank you for your help, though…
I appreciate you trying.
Thank you for the information. I guess I’ll have to forgo a couple of drinks or something to make up for the loss. I sure will be losing a lot of sleep over the loss of that temporary liquid joy.
I’m sorry for the sarcasm, but at the moment, I;m feeling like a desperate man. I picture myself going to 7-11,the clerk doing their best with my inadequate knowledge of his language, being misunderstood, getting my stuff sent to the wrong place, being notified ten months later that my legal problems have multiplied by tenfold as a result, and then throwing myself off of a bridge or something.
Isn’t there ANYPLACE in Taiwan that makes this service for foreign nitwits and provides service with a smile? Taiwan is such an innovative place, full of people who are eager to find ways to provide sevices to make bucks, certainly SOMEWHERE is someone who can help me. Please God, let it be so.
Thank you all,
You get a printout at 7-11 telling you where you fax went and if it was received; then go and call your lawyers and make sure they got it.
You’re stress over the legal situation is oozing unnecessarily into the fax situation. It’s a simple, straightforward process. Go do it. Check the printout. It’s good.
(Remember you need to dial 002 or 019 to dial out of the country, then a 1 for the US, and then the city code xxx and phone number xxx xxxx).
Sending a fax isn’t a real complicated process. Often they don’t know what “fax” means, but you only need two words: “傳真”, “chuan2 zhen1”. Write down the phone number, including the country code and leading 002. It will be okay.
Thank you for the information. I guess I’ll have to forgo a couple of drinks or something to make up for the loss. I sure will be losing a lot of sleep over the loss of that temporary liquid joy.[/quote]
It may just be alcohol to you, but that was my last NT$500 note. Now what am I supposed to light my cigars with?
You could try one of the larger hotels. The Hyatt, Sheraton, etc. They get business travellers, they will speak English, and they will most likely have a fax machine or ten. Of course, you will probably have to pay a fair amount more than 7-11.
Or you could try Enspyre. I’m sure Elias would be able to help.
You can send the fax online by means of email at one of the many “online fax” services. Of course the documents would need to be on your computer already, so they could be word/pdf files or you could scan them in somehow. Try http://www.faxaway.com or faxzero.com/.
You’re right, I’m stressing over a minor detail that is just one of those things that makes a situation that would back home seem merely extremely shitty seem riddled with obstacles.
But you know how sometimes life in Taiwan is riddled with obstacles? It’s the uncertainty of that that is killing me. I cannot, cannot, CANNOT let down my mother. The idea of making an an asshole mistake here that affects her adversely is the one thing I cannot deal with. I’m just not down with revealing personal info on Forumosa unless it involves politics or girls, but today you are all my friends.
Thank you.
[quote=“Stray Dog”]You get a printout at 7-11 telling you where you fax went and if it was received; then go and call your lawyers and make sure they got it.
You’re stress over the legal situation is oozing unnecessarily into the fax situation. It’s a simple, straightforward process. Go do it. Check the printout. It’s good.
(Remember you need to dial 002 or 019 to dial out of the country, then a 1 for the US, and then the city code xxx and phone number xxx xxxx).
Go do it now; you’ll be glad you did.[/quote]
Hi,
I understand you are an old hand in Taiwan. I am not. Can you walk me through this process step by step?
I don’t even have a funcking landline.
[quote=“Brendon”]Sending a fax isn’t a real complicated process. Often they don’t know what “fax” means, but you only need two words: “傳真”, “chuan2 zhen1”. Write down the phone number, including the country code and leading 002. It will be okay.
Thank you for the information. I guess I’ll have to forgo a couple of drinks or something to make up for the loss. I sure will be losing a lot of sleep over the loss of that temporary liquid joy.[/quote]
It may just be alcohol to you, but that was my last NT$500 note. Now what am I supposed to light my cigars with?[/quote]
Dude, I know. I once lived on tea eggs from 7-11 for about five weeks. If what is happening now was happening then, my thread would be called “where can I buy bullets?”
Thanks, man. I can’t thank you enough you enough to take the time to put that in Chinese for me.
[quote=“myury”]You could try one of the larger hotels. The Hyatt, Sheraton, etc. They get business travellers, they will speak English, and they will most likely have a fax machine or ten. Of course, you will probably have to pay a fair amount more than 7-11.
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Holy shit I never thought of that. Damn, I know that will be expensive, but thank you. Just knowing that I have this option as a last resort will keep me from throwing myself in front of a green truck in case i try everything else and nothing worlks and I get those blank stares and run from place to place and green trucks start looking like a good place to pactice my diving skills.
I’m thinking you don’t need to know any Chinese to fax something at 7-11. Just walk in, give them the stack you want faxed, and say “fax?” and they would do it all for you. Point to the phone number and grunt.
You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But there’s a reason I know how to say “fax” in Chinese now. There’ve been two occasions in the past when I tried to fax stuff and they had no idea what the word meant.
We then had ridiculous ten minute conversations where I would try to explain it in my crappy Chinese – “You put the paper in the copy machine, and the computer reads it, and it goes through the phone line and comes out on a printer in Taipei”. “Huh?”. “I want to send these pages through the phone line. Like email, but from a copy machine”. “Huh?”. “Fax”. “Huh?”. “FAX. Facsimile. You copy the paper and it comes out somewhere else”. “Huh?”. “These pages. To this phone number”. “Phone card?”. “No. These pages. That copy machine. Phone line”. “Phone call?”. “Yes. These pages”. “Huh?”. And so on and so on.
The trucks you want to dive under are little blue trucks. Unless of course you wanted to stop a postie.
The official Chinese name for fax is faxi ji. Walk into any 7-11 in the country and say faxi ji and I’ll bet you a million they oblige.
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I think that sounds more like HK?? In Taiwan just say the words Chuan (pronounced like boat) Chin (pronounced like needle). Sorry I speaka but no write-a chinese. But just learn the words for BOAT and NEEDLE and there you go !!
Oh those whacky Taiwanese and their funkier pinyin. Chuan zhen ji - fax machine. But trust me, fax ji works fine, especially if you give it an added Taiwanese accent, as per fack-sah ji.
