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Telegrams​

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Who remembers telegrams? Before phones were common, telegrams were the quickest way to send news. You’d fill out a form at the post office and pay, and a telegram boy on his bike would deliver it. Do you still have old telegrams? We’d love to see them here.

 

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gamiry

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In my baby book is a telegram from my Godfather on my 8th birthday on 18th March 1950. It's still in top condition. I was given the book on the day I was born.

 

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I used to be a telegram boy, delivered thousands of the bloody things.

 

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I still have ones went I passed scholarship in 1963

 

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I remember telegrams at weddings. Some with quite dubious content !!!

 

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Geoff01 said:

I used to be a telegram boy, delivered thousands of the bloody things.

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Me too, as a part time job at Christmas time when the telegram traffic was a lot higher than normal. Hard work peddling a bike around the streets

 

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Telegrams used to be a fun part wedding breakfasts, some very raunchy! Has anything taken their place?

 

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I dont have the original, but a "telegram" at weddings, read out by the best man was " Don't buy you bed from ....,they stand behind everything they sell."

 

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A telegram I remember from my own wedding was
“ Don’t spring on the inner spring this spring or next spring you’ll have offspring “.

 

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I still have the telegram I received for my first teaching appointment with the NSW Department of Education in 1982. I retired as a principal in 2021 after a long, enjoyable and rewarding career (which I miss). It went past too quickly!

 

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jaymel said:

I dont have the original, but a "telegram" at weddings, read out by the best man was " Don't buy you bed from ....,they stand behind everything they sell."

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oh yes, how well we remember this one. It was usually from "Grace Brothers".

 

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Yes I remember them being read out at weddings

 

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I remember one wedding telegram that read,,,Congratulations felicitations salutations and jollifications with expectations of multiplications without complications. I remember this telegram because I sent it.

 

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louarrivolo said:

I remember one wedding telegram that read,,,Congratulations felicitations salutations and jollifications with expectations of multiplications without complications. I remember this telegram because I sent it.

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weren't you clever. I wonder how you would go at Scrabble.