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THE DEATH OF THE TELEGRAM

February 12, 2006 by Jim Connelly

ON JANUARY 27, 2006, WESTERN UNION SUSPENDED TELEGRAM SERVICE. STOP. FOREVER. STOP. THE REVOLUTIONARY NINETEENTH CENTURY COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY LASTS UNTIL EARLY TWENTY-FIRST. STOP. WESTERN UNION CITES MASSIVE EXPENSE IN CONTINUING TO DELIVER VIAGRA, HOODIA AND PENNY STOCK TIP ‘SPAMGRAMS’. STOP. PR PERSON SAYS ‘THE COST ALONE OF DELIVERING THE ONGOING FLOOD OF TELEGRAMS FROM NIGERIA WAS ‘PROHIBITIVE.’ STOP. TELEGRAMS WILL LIVE ON IN OLD MOVIES, FOREVER PROVIDING A MOMENT FOR A OLDER PERSON TO EXPLAIN TO A YOUNGER PERSON JUST WHAT THEY WERE. STOP.

  • THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM IS NO MORE

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