The telegram allowed people at a distance from each other to communicate in real time for the first time in history so there were a lot of social and business changes because of that.

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The telegram was huge [for the media industry]. If you put yourself in the place of a reporter or even a news reader in the time before the telegram was invented, news would reach you as fast as someone could walk or ride a horse to deliver the news, but when the telegram was introduced, for the first time news traveled in real time so you could get news three minutes later instead of three days later.

Believe me it was not an easy decision for us to make because the telegram was part of our heritage. We have really, in the modern era, been focused on providing financial services so this is the last step in the evolution from a communications company to a financial services company.

Daily messenger service for telegrams stopped in the early 1970s and was replaced by next day express delivery by courier.

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