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Dominique De Bast
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From: Brussels, Belgium
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- posted December 29, 2017 12:29 PM      Profile for Dominique De Bast   Email Dominique De Bast   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
It was the last day today in Belgium for this service. I wonder if telegrams have disappeard in most of the countries. 9.000 telegrams have been sent this year (1.500.000 in 1980).

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Brian Fretwell
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- posted December 29, 2017 03:11 PM      Profile for Brian Fretwell   Email Brian Fretwell   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I'm sure they have in the UK. I left BT before the end, but I worked on transmission for international Telegraphs and business was dropping badly in the early 2000's. The building holding London's Telex and international telegram switches was closed a few years ago. Inland telegrams had been renamed Telemessages and delivered by normal post in the late 1980's.

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