The United States followed suit in 2006 and even India, which had been by far the world's biggest market for the telegram, finally closed its system down in 2013.
What gives? The telegram should have been dead several decades ago.
There was clearly still a small niche market for telegrams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62kxPyNZF3Q
Excellent clip, but they actually do still make (relatively small numbers of) buggy whips.