[lit-ideas] Re: The Death of the Telegram
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:44:20 -0700
It's still possible to send a hard copy telegram. I sent a birthday telegram to my cousin
in Idaho, earlier this month, via the Western Union website.
very cool. we often discuss telegrams in Silicon Valley. i didn't know these could even be
sent anymore.
a friend in Washington DC tells me that State Dept still uses telegrams, not email, for
their communications. when a telegram arrives, an intern picks it up, walks it to the
Secretary of State (some whose name I can't remember). when he has read it, the intern then
walks it to the Under-Secretary of State, and on down the line, one by one, walking all the
way. the bureaucracy is mired somewhere in the late 1940s.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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