I am German too and while I admit that some parts of government especially on the local level can sometimes be not nearly as bad as we all love to say, at other times things are really, really bad.

Anything to do with health care makes it even worse. Having had to work with public and private organization during the height of Corona has shown me just how bad things can be.

But you are right, fax-machines are slowly losing their importance. Nowadays it is often something as high tech as a PDF of a document that was written on a computer, printed out, signed and scanned back into a computer and then forwarded by mail.