Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a customer service For quite a few years now, using the Boston Globe in our classes, Today, for example, we exchanged text messages with our son, who was It cost me a quarter and was free for him. The messages took all of We are, however, old enough to remember, and to mourn the passing of, Of course, Western Union has not closed up shop. When we teach We wonder if they will still let us send messages along with our occasional The following notice appeared today on the web site of Western Union: Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/telegrammm.jpg\")
The following
\n notice<\/a> appeared today on the web site of Western
\n Union<\/a>:<\/p>\n
\n and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may
\n cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage. <\/p>\n
\n representative.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n when we describe
\n the style of English used in headlines as "Telegram English" we are met
\n with blank stares. In today’s world of email, personal chat, instant
\n messaging,text messaging and whatnot, there is scant need for quickly
\n hand-delivered hard copy.<\/p>\n
\n on the beach in Puerto Chicama, Peru. I was in bed watching the rain
\n run down the windows, and he was
\n drinking a cold beer under a thached roof with his feet in the warm sand,
\n looking out at the longest left-handed curl in the world. <\/p>\n
\n five seconds to get from our phone to his. Hard to compete with
\n that.<\/p>\n
\n the venerable, pay by the word telegram. During our childhood, they always
\n seemed to bring bad news – the passing of a distant relative, news of
\n an accident
\n or a
\n desperate plea for help. But as we grew older, the telegram moments grew
\n less frequent
\n and more festive – marriage, the birth of our first son (born very near
\n the beach he was calling from today).<\/p>\n
\n business classes we use it as an example of a comany which has completely
\n remade itself as technology made its original service redundant. Today,
\n the business of moving money from place to place is doing quite well,
\n for
\n Western Union and others.<\/p>\n
\n remittances to Peru….\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"