DR Elmore, I used to live at the copy machines when we had an OfficeMax five minutes from the house. It wasn't uncommon to find one out of the four or five of them out of order, but in my experience it was never worse than that. But that was back when life was simple. They were just copy machines, the internet was young, and scanning and emailing such things wasn't yet a thing.
Your experience sounds like it's turned into a bloody nightmare. I'm glad that the little bit of scanning etc. that I have to do now can be done from my trusty (knock wood) CanoScan flatbed scanner right here on my desk.