Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all
> Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any
> inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal > patronage.
I tried looking up the message but it was gone. Nothing was on the WU site except "Telegram" was blanked out.
I wish I had known before the closure so I could of sent a Telegram just for the heck of it.
The question remains: Suppose you need to quickly send a message to someone with an officially recognized receipt for legal purposes? I don't think a fax reaches that standard because it's easy to forge a fax receipt and no neutral third party is involved. Certified mail provides a legal receipt, but is too slow for most purposes.
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