The Most Outlandish Document Delivery Methods: A Call for Stories

In the world of client relationships and project management, unconventional document submissions can sometimes leave us scratching our heads. As professionals, we’ve likely encountered some bizarre ways in which clients have chosen to send us important documents. Today, I want to share a particularly peculiar experience and invite you to join the conversation with your own stories.

I once had a client who decided to send me a document in a rather unconventional manner. Instead of simply forwarding a PDF, they took a photo of the document displayed on their iPad using their Samsung phone, and then emailed that picture to me. To my surprise, we were left with the rather laborious task of processing that invoice manually.

Now, I’m curious to hear from you. Have you had a similarly strange or frustrating experience in receiving documents? Perhaps you’ve received handwritten notes, upside-down scans, or files with vague names like “Image(345).jpg.”

What’s the most unusual or challenging format a client has submitted to you? Your stories could help shed light on the chaos we sometimes face in document management. I’m gathering these anecdotes not to pitch a solution but to find camaraderie among those of us navigating this often humorous landscape.

Let’s swap tales and see just how wild the document submission process can be!