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<p><strong>An office fax machine has revealed it hasn't done a stroke of work for ten years but still gets paid.</strong></p>
<p>Lorraine Fisher, a grey Panasonic FP701, turns up every day at an estate agency in Suffolk but hasn't done anything useful since printing out a contract sent by a solicitor back in 2007.</p>
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<p>"I'm basically stealing a living," Lorraine admitted. "I sit here and try and look busy every day of the week, and thankfully no-one has noticed I do sod all.</p>
<p>"They still pay me, so I'm hoping I last another 15 years before I can retire."</p>

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<p>She explained that office life used to be very different in the 1990s and early noughties, when she was very busy.</p>
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<p>"Everyone wanted to use me back then. Most were amazed at how hi-tech I was and delighted in the strange squealing noise I used to make while I connected, eventually, with another fax machine somewhere in the world.</p>
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<p>"I soon saw the writing on the wall when people started using email all the time, or scanners and electronic signatures. I was a has-been, but to my amazement they kept me.</p>
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<p>"A man comes once a year to check I am all right and give me some new ink, even though I haven't used a drop since the last time."</p>
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<p>[AdSense-B]</p>
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<p>News of Lorraine's incredible survival comes as the NHS has been told to scrap all its fax machines.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, the Suffolk Gazette revealed recently how a new-fangled <a href="https://www.suffolkgazette.com/business/telephone/">telephonic device that you can't break or lose</a> was taking the nation by storm.</p>
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<p>[AdSense-C]</p>
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