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Western Union Ends Telegram Services
Snap E Tom writes "As of this past Friday, Western Union has stopped sending telegrams. The article cites factors such as long distance telephone and faxes that contributed to its demise, but email was the final nail. My hunch is that modern USPS and overnight delivery services did the most damage, though."
Telegram Services STOP.
Dear Western Union, stop. Would you please, please, stop.
Now how are we supposed to coordinate the counter attack against the aliens?
..is a very important date in Telecommunications.
Yep, now we`ll be surely doomed when SKYNET comes online...
I only hope [stop]
that they do not [stop]
end their exciting [stop]
telegraph service [stop]
Trolling is a art,
Well it takes CowboyNeal a while to type in all those telegrams we send him.
"...factors such as long distance telephone..."
Another example of how modern technology is undermining core business plans. You'd think they would've seen the writing on the wall... in, oh lets say, 1875?
"Telegram for Mongo" :)
"Telegram for Mongo"
It must be the standard unit of measurement for weighing TV's
If this were really happening, what would you think?
Now how am I going to hear what Doc has been up to?!
-- i am jack's amusing sig file
First Telegrams, what next? I fear the Pony Express is targetted for elimination at the hands of "progress" and "technology." What is this world coming to!? When my grandfather died at the ripe old age of 46, he told me something that I'll never forget... ...if only I could remember what that was.
Don't worry- Western Union still handles the kind of transmissions that Congressmen pay attention to.
If they were truely a modern company, they'd sue everyone who used the modern tech instead.
I had an email in a frame once, but then I closed the browser...
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
"In other news, has anyone on Slashdot EVER written a friendly letter (attempted seduction counts) and sent it by snail mail?"
What do you think people did before email access was first available to
Joe Geek in the early 90s? Shout really loud?
"In other news, has anyone on Slashdot EVER written a friendly letter (attempted seduction counts) and sent it by snail mail?"
Well, now that you mention it, it was less "letter" and more "book"... but I did get a bona fide letter from her lawyer via certified mail!
With a limit like that, I think you're pretty much stuck with buying interns.
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