April 14, 2010 | By Jason Judge | General Blogging

Occasionally there is a need to send a fax, but it can be such a rare occurrence that it is hardly worth keeping a fax permanently set up, or even keeping track of where you last put the fax modem cable for your laptop.

I took a look at free or cheap online fax sending services in the UK, and many offer lots of promise in the Google search results, but few deliver once you go through their long registration processes – usually “free” means “subscribe monthly” by the time you get to the site.

I did come across FreePopFax though that seems to work a treat. Just upload your Word for PDF document, enter the recipient’s fax number and your e-mail address, and off it goes. You then get an e-mail when the fax is sent.

So far as I can see, FreePopFax is an affiliate of the monthly subscription service PopFax, but adverts are inserted to pay for the service. Bear that in mind – the recipient may receive adverts.

I would add a disclaimer: I have no idea who is reading these faxes en-route, so don’t use it for anything that contains credit card or other personal details that could result in identity theft, but for the odd fax, give it a go.