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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 03 2006,1:38 pm Post # 1 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Technology victim: Western Union sends its last telegram.
Once a staple of American communications, the telegram died quietly last week....here's the rest of the story:
http://www.computerworld.com/softwar....=108354

I'm kinda bummed. I never ever received a Telegram from anyone.....

I've seen them, read them. I remember my grandmother getting one once, but now I'll never know what that's like. :cry

I was actually surprised to see that they were still in the business of telegrams after all these years. What with e-mail and text messaging and all....too bad.

It's a fact of Life:

After Monday and Tuesday, even the Calendar says : WTF .......
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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 03 2006,3:27 pm Post # 2 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Post office will be next.  :D
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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 03 2006,4:08 pm Post # 3 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
I read where a bunch of people were trying to send the last telegram and it got really busy at some Western Union stations :comp

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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 03 2006,8:37 pm Post # 4 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
How else would you send $$ to somebody almost instantly???

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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 03 2006,10:18 pm Post # 5 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
They still send the $$.  Just not the telegrams.  You know, the notes people used to get via telegraph line.
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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 04 2006,8:23 am Post # 6 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Telegram message...what's that..?? :confused  :D
At least when you got one, you wanted to read it  :good .....the communications today are 80% adv/spam....IMO....
Can't think of the last time I wrote a letter to a friend (other than Xmas  :rolleyes )..??  :beat
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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 06 2006,10:31 am Post # 7 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
That's too bad.  Another great piece of history goes thbpt!
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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 06 2006,11:45 am Post # 8 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (Carrera Elite @ Feb. 03 2006,9:37 pm)
How else would you send $$ to somebody almost instantly???

PayPal :jumpie

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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 06 2006,1:04 pm Post # 9 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (AZKC @ Feb. 06 2006,12:45 pm)
PayPal :jumpie

Only if you have a Confirmed Account and a C.C. and.....

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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 06 2006,2:04 pm Post # 10 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Dot-dot-dot, dit-dit-dit, dot-dot-dot............
Hurry, I'm dying out here :D

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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 07 2006,11:23 am Post # 11 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Now you'll have to send that S.O.S. by way of the U.S.Postal Service, and it could take 2-7 days for it to arrive at it's destination.....

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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 07 2006,11:35 am Post # 12 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (Carrera Elite @ Feb. 07 2006,10:23 am)
Now you'll have to send that S.O.S. by way of the U.S.Postal Service, and it could take 2-7 days for it to arrive at it's destination.....

and 39c :angry
Too much like my employees needing a raise before they prove their performance.... :beat

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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 07 2006,11:54 am Post # 13 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
How often do you give raises?? It's been almost 4 years here...

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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 07 2006,12:07 pm Post # 14 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Facilities came buy the other day and raise my chair an inch.  Does that count.  :D
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Post Icon Posted: Feb. 07 2006,12:10 pm Post # 15 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (BigDog @ Feb. 07 2006,1:07 pm)
Facilities came buy the other day and raise my chair an inch.  Does that count.  :D

For you, maybe. For me, no.....

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got a little raise this year :good so I'm happy :rotflmao

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