I've been sorting through old stuff, and came across this: a telegram dated 1970, from Don Dunstan, then state premier of South Australia, congratulating my grandparents who lived in a suburb of Adelaide on their 50th wedding anniversary.

#familytree #dondunstan #adelaide #oldstuff #telegrams

@cdarwin And espechally the latter one is a big point.

#USPS is expensive because it has to cover not just #COTUS / ("lower 48" + D.C.) but #PuertoRico, #AmericanVirginIslands, #Guam, #Hawaii, #Alaska, #MinorOutlyingIslands and also do #International #Shipping to #military bases and troops (or at least peer into their supply chains).

• Basically they do everything that isn't subject to "Defense Courier Service" or other classified mail...

Not to mention as a #NationalCarrier per #IPU they also get to do a lot of mandatory stuff that is expensive and not abolishable, from #customs handling to #PosteRestante to god forbid #Telegrams (not the shitty messenger tho!)...

• The only reason a C5-sized envelope costs me € 1,60 nationwide in #Germany is because Germany is smaller than #California and way denser urbanized on average.

Not to mention USPS has to maintain a shitload of locations to get their mandatory availability to the average household:

• Pretty shure that USPS kiosk in Salmon Forks even if it's just an unmanned dropbox isn't even recovering it's electricity bill!

#PostalService is #infrastructure, and what happens when infrastructure is being forced to be run as a #ForProfitBusiness with ever absurder #profit demands can be seen in the #UK with their #TapWater systems...

2 inspiring cablegrams

http://www.loc.gov/item/00652934/

#american #unitedstates #economicindustrialaspects #johnjoseph #worldwar #telegrams #edwardnash #color #pershingjohnj #hurleyedwardn #lithographs #warposters #communications

#Durov's arrested is a reminder; #backup your #Telegrams data. here is how:

https://youtu.be/6pT-A-UbAX0

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone President Akira Shimada has floated the idea of ending the domestic telegram services of its group firms NTT East and NTT West. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/08/japan/japan-ntt-telegram-end/ #japan #ntt #telegrams #ntteast #nttwest #akirashimada

By the way, does anyone know what kind of #paper #telegrams were written on by the #royalmail in the late 19th century? 😅

@RayNewman
Can you imagine if modern communication mechanisms were priced by the word? 🤣
#Telegrams

_The Evening Post_, 26 Jan 1923:
POST AND TELEGRAPH
FURTHER REDUCED CHARGES
In addition to the reductions (to come into force on 1st February) in the cost of letter postage and telegrams, reductions are also announced in the cost of money orders and the postage of printed matter.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230126.2.13
#OnThisDay #OTD #NewZealand #PapersPast #Telegrams #Post

Es drohen Streiks bei der Post, schreibt Ines Schwerdtner in der @ndaktuell Kolumne. Das sagt mir vor allem eines: Es gibt die Post noch! Das letzte Lebenszeichen dieser Organisation hatte ich ja bei Zustellung eines #Telegrams am 31.12.2022. Seither nix. https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1169977.tarifverhandlungen-ansage-der-post-beschaeftigten.html

parts of the article about #telegrams insecurity that I found through a boost of @Digitalcourage might be outdated.

see:
https://d20hero.club/objects/f46e6b31-9982-4010-a8bd-54b0b8f95955
via @carbontwelve

I don't use telegram, so I can't confirm.