Yesterday, Indians bade farewell to their last commercial telegraph operation, which closed in the face of competition from the internet and mobile technology. The 162-year-old Indian telegraph service was one of the most popular in the world.
I wonder if people still send telegrams in Guyana. I used to send from Meten-meer-zorg Post Office and GPO, G/T.
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An Indian employee feeds in a telegram message for the minister of IT, Kapil Sibbal, urging him not to shut down the telegram services, to be sent via telegraph at the central telegraph office in Mumbai:
Customers wait at the counter at the central telegraph office in Ahmedabad:
Telegraph messages are stamped at Katchehri telegraph office in Allahabad:
A stamp used for telegram forms at the central telegraph office in Mumbai:
RG Vijay Kumar shows photographs of the Hyderabad telegraph office taken in 1980:
A worker uses a cash receipt printer at the telegraph office in Mumbai:
[Source: UK GUARDIAN]