[Technology] Telegrams

crodonilson

He/Him

Jan 17, 2005

13,528

Lyme Regis

• Oct 13, 2020

• #1

Have you ever received a telegram? And if so what was it for?

Surprised in these days of modern technology telegrams still exist and my good friend Giles received one last week.

 

AmexRuislip

Trainee Spy 🕵️‍♂️

Feb 2, 2014

33,808

Ruislip

• Oct 13, 2020

• #2

Stop Crodo, please stop

 

Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker

Feb 20, 2017

23,332

Sussex by the Sea

• Oct 13, 2020

• #3

 

Hampden Park

Ex R.N.

Oct 7, 2003

4,989

• Oct 13, 2020

• #4

I sent quite a few .-.-.

 

schmunk

"Members"

Jan 19, 2018

9,507

Mid mid mid Sussex

• Oct 13, 2020

• #5

This is how I receive my telegrams...

 

zefarelly

Well-known member

NSC Patron

Jul 7, 2003

21,821

Sussex, by the sea

• Oct 13, 2020

• #6

I tend to use Telex, or Fax these days

 

P

Palacefinder General

Well-known member

Apr 5, 2019

2,594

• Oct 13, 2020

• #7

You’re long overdue another BTS thread Crodo, including favourite member poll - . Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V-Shok, Jungkook etc. #MakeItSo

 

Psychobilly freakout

HellBilly

Feb 23, 2009

23,001

Brighton factually.....

• Oct 13, 2020

• #8

I've got a....

https://youtu.be/rXXM60niKbg

 

Doonhamer7

Well-known member

Jun 17, 2016

1,284

• Oct 13, 2020

• #9

My stepdad started working for the post office during WW2. His first job was to deliver the telegrams in what is a small town and rural community and normally he was to to wait to bring a response back. That was unless it was the telegram with news of a death from the war, then he was told by the postmaster not to wait for a response. After a while if he was seen cycling down the street in his uniform every woman would retreat back in doors. What a job to give a 14yr boy - he could still describe it 70 years later

 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,969

Living In a Box

• Oct 13, 2020

• #10

crodonilson said:

Have you ever received a telegram? And if so what was it for?

Surprised in these days of modern technology telegrams still exist and my good friend Giles received one last week.

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Was the telegram from Polly confirming their final divorce settlement

 

Goldstone1976

We Got Calde in!!

Helpful Moderator

NSC Patron

Apr 30, 2013

13,787

Herts

• Oct 14, 2020

• #11

I went through my Dad’s stuff after he died five years ago. I found a telegram he’d kept; sent by my mother to him when he was serving in Vietnam when I was 11. It read: “G1976 seriously ill. Don’t worry.” They next communicated five months later. It was a different world in the olden days.