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1 posted on 02/01/2006 10:28:21 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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WESTERN UNION: STOP!

STOP......

2 posted on 02/01/2006 10:29:06 AM PST by Red Badger (...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
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This is sad news STOP Western Union is an American institution STOP I have never received a telegram STOP I guess I never will STOP


3 posted on 02/01/2006 10:29:36 AM PST by Clemenza
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Fortunately, there will still be Candygrams and Strippergrams.


4 posted on 02/01/2006 10:30:39 AM PST by Argus
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Wow, an American classic passes into history. It was a great technology in its day.


5 posted on 02/01/2006 10:30:40 AM PST by American Quilter (The urge to save humanity is nearly always a cover for the urge to rule. - H.L. Mencken)
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I am 52 and have NEVER needed to send a telegram. Long distance phone calls were reasonably affordable even before I was born.

I am amazed they were still doing it.


6 posted on 02/01/2006 10:32:01 AM PST by RobRoy
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I blame Wal-Mart.


7 posted on 02/01/2006 10:33:20 AM PST by mlc9852
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Western Union STOP
I need to send a telegram STOP


What the hey?!!


9 posted on 02/01/2006 10:33:45 AM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
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Did Algore claim he invented Western Union too?
10 posted on 02/01/2006 10:34:26 AM PST by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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I never understood why we had telegrams anyway - it seems like it would have been easier to just send an email. (ducking)


11 posted on 02/01/2006 10:34:43 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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Didn't the telegram have a place in the UCC and some of the consumer protection laws? I wonder if there will be some unintended consequences from this change.


17 posted on 02/01/2006 10:36:03 AM PST by NonValueAdded (What ever happened to "Politics stops at the water's edge?")
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Further evidence that Bush is destorying this country's Telegram base! How are we supposed to compete on a global scale when we can't even make our own Telegrams anymore?


19 posted on 02/01/2006 10:36:31 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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WHAT?! I didn't get the memo!


20 posted on 02/01/2006 10:37:02 AM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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A little Republican history; John Hay who was Lincolns private secretary at the White House (one of two)... married the heiress to Western Union.


21 posted on 02/01/2006 10:37:28 AM PST by SF Republican
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So much for loging on from Tijeras.....

See ya later...


22 posted on 02/01/2006 10:37:34 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Now we're just going to have to accept more illegal immigration so they can deliver the messages Americans just don't want to.


26 posted on 02/01/2006 10:38:58 AM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
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When Western Union came up with Easy Link in the 1980's, it was only a matter of time. I wondered then why anyone would even NEED telegrams, when they could send messages by computer. Email?


27 posted on 02/01/2006 10:40:45 AM PST by TommyDale
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This makes me sad and I don't know why.

I got a telegram once,the day I was married forty-five years ago.

The end of an era.


32 posted on 02/01/2006 10:43:49 AM PST by Mears (The Killer Queen-caviar and cigarettes.)
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I wonder what the last telegram said..


34 posted on 02/01/2006 10:44:05 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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Horay for Morse Code. The first binary form of communications.


36 posted on 02/01/2006 10:46:45 AM PST by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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Don't feel sorry for them. Western Union makes a huge profit from money transfers. Go into a convience store or super market that has a WU hook up and you may well likely see our illegal guest from the south sending home American Dollars.


38 posted on 02/01/2006 10:49:33 AM PST by cva66snipe
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