Telegrams Still Popular in Japan
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I have never sent or received a telegram in my life.
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Throughout Japan, an army of workers stands ready to ensure important messages are delivered as quickly as possible. But they don't work in data centers maintaining email servers. They deliver telegrams.Staff from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), one of the world's largest telecom companies, still drive around big cities and even board ships to remote Japanese islands hand-delivering telegrams from friends, loved ones and business partners.
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@Mik said in Telegrams Still Popular in Japan:
I’ve worked with NTT. Surprised they are in this business in the age of email
NTT is a lot like AT&T, it is the nation’s largest old telco with large, modern communications businesses. Visited NTT’s HQ in Tokyo many years ago — very “old school” with many small rooms with opaque walls and doors all the way up to the ceiling, as opposed to more modern office interior design with lots of “open space” cubicles and glass walls. Heck, it felt like some old AT&T buildings at the time.
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I hope they have huge rooms full of telegraphers sending and receiving Morse code, that would be the right way to do it.
@Copper said in Telegrams Still Popular in Japan:
I hope they have huge rooms full of telegraphers sending and receiving Morse code, that would be the right way to do it.
That would be the artisanal telegraph service.
Regular telegraph service for the masses would partly involve the Internet and the modern computer these days.
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It is definitely a "niche" item, mainly used as a gift announcement, like weddings, congrats, births, etc.
Something to make the occasion a bit more special I guess.
Has anyone here have sent/received a telegram?
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I recall seeing several telegrams. They were sent for birthdays or new babies or some other event.
They might have been cheaper than a long-distance phone call, I forget exactly how the prices compared. But the prices were high enough so you would think about reducing the number of words.
The singing telegraphs were fun - the delivery boy would sing the contents of the telegram.
