No more telegrams

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Western union (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060201/sc_space/eraendswesternunionstopssendingtelegrams)

[K6DC]

What does this mean?

[n0iu]

It means that AD5TD did not read the thread by AC3P begun on February 1 on the very same subject!

[WA9SVD]

it was in all the snoozepapers...

[W0UZR]

HuH? They just quit sending telegrams NOW ??

I thought they were talking like this was 60 years ago, or about the last telegram sent that was years ago.

You mean up until now. Now days people were sending telegrams?? Holy !!!
Who was sending the telegrams? people that refuses to use phones?

I thought there wasn't any more telegrams 50 and 60 years ago. How the h could they be coming ahead sending telegrams in the 80's 90's and 2000's !!? Who would be sending telegrams? How was there people sending telegrams? People that haven't heard that there are phones or cell phones yet?... No, that's impossible...

To me, this is just like hearing that the pony express was just getting over with......Maybe that is still going......

I'mean, er,,, AAh,,, People were acutally sending telegrams in the 70's ? 80's ? 90's ? And in 2000? No KIDDIN ??

[KC7ATO]

I think most of the folks using WU were sending "moneygrams" to bail their kids out of some hicktown slammer. Once you get off the "interstate" the availability of ATMs decreases proportionately to the distance from the interstate. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KD6NIG]

You can still send the moneygrams.

If you want to send a written message sans USPS or some other entity though, you'll need a carrier pidgeon now, or maybe you can find a old pony express rider.

[al7n]

NTS

[ka0gkt]

One reason for a telegram is immediacy. Like a telephone call, the message can get to the recipient in a timely manner. A telegram, like registered mail, can have a return receipt. This is why emergency reserve activations and draft notices could be sent via telegram…”Greetings from the President of the United States…” A summons can be served via telegram, just as it can by registered mail and it is just as legal and binding as if the process-server placed the document right in the palm of your hand.

Western Union started using teletype sometime in the 1930s, IIRC. That is why a telegram was made up of little strips of paper glued on the telegraph form…in later years, the form was printed on perforated forms and placed right into the TTY machine.

What with the ease of direct dial telephones, facsimile and e-mail, much of what used to be sent via Western Union by businesses has gone in-house.


Verse 1:
Things went wrong today
Bad news came my way
I woke up to find
A wire that blew my mind

Verse 2:
Western Union man
Bad news in his hand
Knocking at my door
Selling me the score

Verse 3:
Fifteen cents a word to read
A telegram I didn't need
Said she didn't care no more
Think I'll throw it on the floor

Refrain:

(...hey) Western Union

Da-da-da-da-da da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da da-da-da-da-da

Verse 4:
Now you've gone away and
How it's sad to say you've gone
I remember what they said
Now I'm going out of my head

(Bridge)
Telegram just had to say
You've learned your lesson all the way, hey
(Refrain)

Verse 5:
I'll be on my way 'cause
There's another girl for me
I'll be sure of her and
Things'll be as they were
(Refrain)


73 DE KAØGKT/7

--Steve

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Quote[/b] (n0iu @ Feb. 20 2006,18:06)]It means that AD5TD did not read the thread by AC3P begun on February 1 on the very same subject!
Looked on the first page of replies, nothing there, thought it was interesting.

BTW, your just now seeing this on the 21st?