TELEGRAMSTOP

Finding a TELEGRAMSTOP in my mailbox yesterday sure was a fun surprise and put a smile on my face.

The telegram has a long, proud and important history in the development of person to person communications. It’s development enabled people to quickly send news around the globe, messages of congratulations, messages of sadness or messages that marked important events.

The TELEGRAMSTOP Team realized that these important messages became records that the recipient would keep as treasured memories and wanted to recreate something special that you, your family and friends would appreciate as a historical record.

Their telegrams are made to look and feel like a classic telegram from the original days when telegrams were one of the only forms of national and international communications, they’ve taken great care to ensure the experience to the recipient is one that garners surprise and a sense of warmth.

PS: For all those wondering why “STOP” was inserted in the old fashioned telegrams at the end of sentences, punctuation used to cost extra whereas letters were free (up to a certain character limit). So users would craft their telegrams to fully make use of this limitation.

Consider me a fan.

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  1. September 8th, 2010

    @ 3:45 am

    Sandy posted:

    I had no idea they still had telegrams out there anymore! What a cool thing to find in your mailbox. :) I figured that was what stop for for, punctuation. I didn’t realize that punctuation cost extra though. Good little tidbit to file away.

  2. September 8th, 2010

    @ 4:34 am

    Leighton Cusack posted:

    Really, really wish they hadn’t turned this into an advertisement by adding the, “telegramstop.com”.

    Otherwise, I’d use it.

  3. September 8th, 2010

    @ 5:14 am

    Words and Eggs posted:

    Ah! I love this!

  4. September 8th, 2010

    @ 5:14 am

    Sameer Vasta posted:

    I have been looking for a telegram-like service for months! Thank you so much for sharing this link. It’s too bad there are no places left (at least here in Toronto) that let you send an actual classic telegram, but this will do quite nicely.

    You just made my day. =)

  5. September 8th, 2010

    @ 5:33 am

    Prescott Perez-Fox posted:

    I’ve used them before, a great quirky thing to send to a friend.

    I always thought “Stop” was inserted simply to properly punctuate the text. Dictating the passage may leave some ambiguities, but if you tell the operator precisely where to put periods, this may help avoid some confusing, run-on sentences. Also, in Britain, they still call periods ‘full stops’, which I suspect is a reference to this era of communication.

    So yes, I’m a fan too.

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