Offbeat News: No More Western Union Telegrams

#1 KoanYorel

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Posted 02 February 2006 - 03:58 AM

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Western Union abandons telegrams
February 1, 2006 11:22 AM PST

The Internet strikes again.

First it mostly did away with brick-and-mortar auction houses. Then newspaper classifieds went the way of the Model-T Ford.

And now, thanks to the ubiquity of e-mail and instant messaging, Western Union is getting out of the telegram business...

The full story at C/Net News

//Koan's comment: I live very near a road called "Telegraph Road" in Maryland.
It was the straight line shot from Baltimore to Washington D.C. that the telegraph poles were set in at the time.
It now only exists in small fragments of the original line. :thumbsup:

The only easy day was yesterday.

...some do, some don't; some will, some won't (WR)

#2 phawgg

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Posted 02 February 2006 - 06:09 AM

Telegraph Road by Dire Straits :thumbsup:

was an early release by the band ... long and lyrical,
it is sort of a "template" for subsequent successful songs
by them and Mark Knopfler's individual efforts ... in retrospection.

amazing what retrospection can do to & for a present viewpoint.

Communication & Banking just won't seem the same w/o that option available ...
Western Union had it's place in many novels & movies.

patiently patrolling, plenty of persisant pests n' problems ...

#3 BlackSpyder

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Posted 02 February 2006 - 06:40 AM

huh i thought Western Union just did money oders now. and just for note the birck and mortar auction houses are still around (who shops for farm equipment or Picaso's using ebay)

#4 phawgg

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Posted 02 February 2006 - 07:02 AM

Right you are, BlackSpyder

Picassos are definately out of my league,
(if I was in that league, I'd shop for a Dali though)
BUT I still visit a couple of estate liquidation auction houses in the area that
have been going for decades and likely will continue.

Shipping costs associated with Ebay will always place value on local acquisitions, I think.

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