Unforgettable Document Delivery Fails: Share Your Stories!

We’ve all been there—navigating the often chaotic world of client communications and document submissions. Sometimes, these interactions can be amusing, frustrating, or downright perplexing. Today, I want to invite you to reflect on your own experiences and share the most bizarre ways you’ve received documents from clients.

To kick things off, let me share a particularly memorable incident. A client once sent me a photograph of a PDF displayed on their iPad. The catch? They captured the image using a Samsung phone and then emailed it to me. As you can imagine, this quirky method of submission resulted in a rather laborious manual processing of an invoice.

We’ve all encountered unconventional document submissions—whether it’s handwritten notes, scans that are upside down, or files whimsically named “Image(345).jpg.” These occurrences highlight the challenges we face in our line of work.

I’d love to hear about your experiences, whether they’ve made you laugh or pulled your hair out in frustration. What’s the most peculiar document delivery you’ve encountered? Share your stories in the comments below!

I’m gathering anecdotes while working on a project aimed at alleviating some of the chaos that often comes with these situations. I’m not trying to sell anything; I just want to know I’m not the only one dealing with this amusing madness!