2019-01-28

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2019-01-28 07:38 pm

I thought I was an Old

In an online discussion of someone who wasn't sure about going to their father's upcoming birthday party, one commenter suggested sending a "happy birthday" telegram to the party, to be read aloud. Another person asked whether that was still done, meaning the "reading it aloud" part.

No, it's not, at least not in the United States; Western Union got out of the telegraph business in 2006.