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How do I send a telegram?

  • 07-09-2007 9:32am
    #1
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭


    Mods, I've had a look around the site.

    I don't think Nets&Comms is the place, and nowhere immediately jumps out for this particular query.

    Does anyone know how I go about sending a telegram.

    A friend is getting married in the US and A this weekend, and I can't make it.

    Of course, I could email the best man, but I'd really like to send a telegram.

    How much does it cost, and will only certain hotels accept them?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Mahatma coat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    Isn't it one of the services listed in the front of the phonebook?


  • #3
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Really?

    I'll have a look around work for a phone book.


  • #4
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Sheeesh.. welcome to the 21st Century...

    We use stripograms these days!


  • #5
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Am I too late for the 4.30 autogiro to Siam?


  • #6
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,008 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Get up to speed man, it's a telex you send these days!!!


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  • #7
    tampopo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭tampopo


    Fax the hotel/reception


  • #8
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Googley Google....

    http://www.itelegram.com/

    Tah Daaaa!!
    ^_^


  • #9
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Didn't I hear this on today fm this morning? Just looked at that site and a telegram looks suspiciously like a fax. For 30 dollars a pop plus per word charge I think I should get into this!

    What's the difference between this and a fax?


  • #10
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    MarkR wrote:
    Didn't I hear this on today fm this morning?
    What?

    Was it on Ray Darcy's show?

    Tell me it wasn't.


  • #11
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    I thought I remember hearing a year ago that the telegram is officially dead due to low demand. Maybe this was only in Britain though. link. Wazdakka is correct.


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  • #12
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,396 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    DesF wrote:
    Mods, I've had a look around the site.

    I don't think Nets&Comms is the place, and nowhere immediately jumps out for this particular query.

    Does anyone know how I go about sending a telegram.

    A friend is getting married in the US and A this weekend, and I can't make it.

    Of course, I could email the best man, but I'd really like to send a telegram.

    How much does it cost, and will only certain hotels accept them?

    Thanks.


    You need to find yourself a De Lorean car, fit it with a flux capacitor, find a nice stretch of road, gun it to 88 mph and head back in time to when people still used telegrams...


  • #13
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    dulpit wrote:
    You need to find yourself a De Lorean car, fit it with a flux capacitor, find a nice stretch of road, gun it to 88 mph and head back in time to when people still used telegrams...
    But then his friend wouldn't be getting married.

    OH NOE, I BROEK TIME!


  • #14
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    DesF wrote:
    What?

    Was it on Ray Darcy's show?

    Tell me it wasn't.

    I wasn't concentrating on the radio, but I'm sure they had something about someone looking for a telegram. Was definately today anyway. Pretty sure it was a fix it friday thing but I was going through a bad coverage area!


  • #15
    Lola123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Lola123


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    Sheeesh.. welcome to the 21st Century...

    We use stripograms these days!

    Or blubbergrams if you REALLY want to be hip and up to date!


  • #16
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Look lads, I know all about emails, fax machines and even text messages.

    But I want to send a telegram for the novelty I suppose, I can't afford a proper present, so I reckon my mate would like the fact that I spent the time sending the telegram.

    I do like the DeLorean idea though.

    Oh and Cheers Wazdakka, that looks like it could be a runner alright.


  • #17
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Well the first thing you do is hop in your Deloreon, go back to 1885, a guy called doc brown is the man to see, he'll set you straight. It'll have the guys in the telegram deliver office betting for the next 122 years if the wedding will take place and whether your mad or not. Then, this weekend it'll get delivered on time.


    That or ring the post office, I'm sure they're the people for this kind of thing.


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