My brother was in a town several hours away. He needed is Discharge papers from the Army (VietNam era)
He had a friend at the local bank. He called my folks and said if they would take the papers to the bank and leave them his friend would fax them to him. They dropped off the papers and went home. Shortly after they got home my brother called to say thanks he had gotten them. A few days later I heard him telling a neighbor that some how those papers had gone into the phone line and came out the other end where my brother was waiting for them. (my dad was in his 90's) He just didn't get the concept of the fax machine!!