Spam, Spam, and More Spam!!!!

Ya gotta love Eric Idle, he is by far my favorite Monty Python member. But the Spam he speaks of in this skit is not the Spam I am grumbling about in today's post.

The Spam we shall speak of today is the solicitations that come via snail mail, e-mail, telephone (thank goodness for caller id), and.....Fax!!!!! While all of them bug the living stew out of me, none bothers me as much as the Fax. As previously stated, a substantial part of my business is via fax. So when my fax rings, I assume it is business related. I get somewhere between 3 and 5 of these stupid faxes a day. Nevermind my trecking up the stairs to my office to see what it is when the fax rings, what bugs me the most is the fact that all the other forms of Spam may be irritating and take a little of my time to get rid of, but the Fax Spam actually costs me money. It's my ink, my paper. Do people really respond to these solicitations? I get so many about "Dream Vacations at Employee Prices" and "Undisclosed Special Mortgage Rates" that it boggles the mind.

They always have numbers to call if you don't want to receive the faxes anymore, but it has been my experience that this only confirms a valid fax number to the sender. Grrrrrrrr.

I understand the need to market your business but I find it incredibly rude to use other people's resources for your purpose. I can delete email, not answer phone calls, trash junk mail, but these faxes are insane and they come at all hours of the day. Thank goodness Jack loves to shred paper, he at least enjoys "his faxes".