Do you know anybody, historically even, who sent/received a TELEGRAM

5rtytry56

Choose in the Poll. Explain who in the thread.

frag420

Inspector Morse...

El Weirdo

YES STOP

notsoyoungwan

Yes. My father, now in his 80s, sent one from Dublin to his parents in kerry to let them know his brother (also in Dublin)had needed emergency surgery and was doing ok after it.

The flying mouse

Yes.

Congratulations on my wedding :-)

1983 or 2 I forget now.

Winterlong

Got a rake of them at home from the parents wedding.

My mother worked as telephonist in the P&T in the 1950s and learned Morse code all her life she could remember the dots and dashes code.

Grayson

My parents did back in the 80's. They also sent/received telex's.

Winterlong

Winterlong wrote: »

Got a rake of them at home from the parents wedding.

Same, my parents have them from their wedding day.

Grayson

Grayson wrote: »

My parents did back in the 80's. They also sent/received telex's.

Had to look that up. I was never aware of such a thing before.

RayM

I found one from 1982 while moving house a few years ago STOP It was sent by my mum's colleagues congratulating her for giving birth to me STOP

Ah, stop.

El Weirdo

ADRIAN STOP COMING HOME STOP

What does she mean 'stop coming home'? How can I stop coming home? I live here!

CalamariFritti

Telegram Sam

5rtytry56

El Weirdo wrote: »

What does she mean 'stop coming home'? How can I stop coming home? I live here!

YUP I'm a fan of these books by Sue Townsend as well (RIP):D

readytosnap

Got a couple on my wedding day from relatives in Ireland, still have them after more than 30 years, I have to say, they aged better than the missus.

Itssoeasy

Yes my grandparents got some on their wedding day in 1960 which my grandmother still has along with the photo album.

westcoast66

I spent some time in south america in the 90's. A few weeks after I got home, I got a telegram (or TELEX?) from a girlfriend I had over there. I didn't know what to do with it! Seems like a relic from pre email days.

AudreyHepburn

My grandparents, all now in their 80s. They would send and receive them from relatives down the country and abroad.

cajonlardo

i went for a job interview in 1986.

I was told immediately that I was not successful. I lived in a flat back then but the next day a telegram was sent out to my parents house asking to comeback and that they wanted to offer me an alternative role. It was all very exciting stuff back then and I was sooooooooooo important That and the wedding ones ( '87)

The Backwards Man

El Weirdo wrote: »

What does she mean 'stop coming home'? How can I stop coming home? I live here!

PLEASE STOP

Grayson

In 20 years time there'll be a thread "Does anyone know anyone who has sent an SMS."

Badly Drunk Boy

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Do you know anybody who sent/received a TELEGRAM?

Sam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_pm2wPR5u4

Shannon757

What's a telegram?

suicide_circus

“Yes, I’d like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by aero mail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?”

RobertKK

I remember as a child at my cousin's wedding in the early 1980s and they received a telegram.

testicles

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Ted111

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAqSdDjOPgQ

looksee

We got several for wedding and first two children. We were abroad at the time. Also remember vaguely a scattering of them from my childhood and teens, but generally they were not particularly noteworthy -except that they were expensive to send - so I have no idea what they were about. People travelling mostly I think.

The cheaper alternative was postcards. I recently found one my mum sent her mother, she (mum) was working, in service, and sent a postcard to say she would get one bus to a nearby town and another to her home. She was 14 at the time.

Randle P. McMurphy

Sent one to my parents in the 70's. Needed money in a hurry to get back home.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I sent and received many in my youth when in countries where phones were few. Pre mobile phones a telegram was a marvel.

thefishone

Remember back in the early 80s,two lads from school getting a job with
P&T to deliver telegrams,short lived job it turned out.

Mr. FoggPatches

A mate sent me one. Thought I was being arrested until the dance started. He's tremendous fun.

Grayson

But has anyone received a candygram?

Capt'n Midnight

mariaalice wrote: »

My mother worked as telephonist in An Post in the 1950s and learned Morse code all her life she could remember the dots and dashes code.

Just like her father she only did it 'cos her dada did it.

buried

Seen Al Swearengen reading one out loud before in Deadwood. Had something to do with some squaw-f**kin liar pi$$ing away all his money

JupiterKid

I think my parents received telegrams when they were married in the late 1960s. But personally I never sent or received one. I was born in the era of telex and grew up in the era of the fax machine.

feargale

Shannon757 wrote: »

What's a telegram?

You must find short pants uncomfortable at this time of year.

Del.Monte

I sent the bould Ivan (Yates) a telegram in 1981 congratulating him on his election to the Dail. I still have his reply letter somewhere amongst the collected flotsam of 57 years above ground.

Rubberlegs

My aunty sent one to my parents when I was born.

Teyla Emmagan

Granny sent loads of them. Because she worked in Post and Telegraphs or whatever is was back then. She's 95 now, but I wouldn't call her "historic".

cml387

I can just remember when the telegram took over from the pony express.
That was one happy pony.

gipi

I received a few telegrams back in the late 70s.

I worked for Dept of Posts and Telegraphs at the time, and received a telegram if my shift changed when I was on leave - the tekegram told me when I was due in work.

We had no housephone (look it up, kids!), so telegram was the only way to contact me.

I also sent one to a relative in Oz, to let him know of a family bereavement.

Peregrine

Yes, my parents and practically everyone from their generation. My dad found out about my granddad's death via telegram.

Ted111

Del.Monte wrote: »

I sent the bould Ivan (Yates) a telegram in 1981 congratulating him on his election to the Dail. I still have his reply letter somewhere amongst the collected flotsam of 57 years above ground.

I remember when I used to work in the bookies I sent Yates a telegram, said 'where's my wages you b@stard'?

Irish Guitarist

I'm fairly certain my mother sent my aunt one to tell her my father had died. This was in 2000 but my aunt lived on a farm in Wicklow with no phone.

deisemum

I got a couple of congratulation telegrams at my wedding.

Stheno

My oh got one back in the day

SouthernBelle

Got quite a few on my wedding day in 1993.

Stigura

They were always considered terrifying, in my day. Probably a throw back to the dreaded war time ones.

Cost of the bloody things was pretty terrifying too! Charged, appreciably, by the character. People didn't rattle them off, just because.

Telegrams? Christ, I remember hand writing letters to people. With a pen. Sticking it in an envelope. Writing their address on that. Taking the f**ker to the post office. Queuing up, to buy a stamp. Then sticking it in the post box.

If I was lucky, I'd be delighted to get a reply from them that same week! More usually though, one would expect it some time in the next week.

Imagine that, today?! F**k me; If we were posh, we'd even ring a building and ask if our intended was in it!




Just editing to say; Bloody hell! My 1000th post! Just happened to notice that!

feargale

Stigura wrote: »

Just editing to say; Bloody hell! My 1000th post! Just happened to notice that!

Congratulations. We would send you a congratulatory telegram if we could.

Junkyard Tom

Sending messages undersea via cables is so 19th Century.