Published: 12:27PM Thursday July 13, 2006
Source: RNZ
Telegrams are coming back into vogue, but not as you might know them. The messages were a trusty form of communication before the age of text messaging and emails.
New Zealand Post ended its telegram service in 1999 due to lack of demand, but more recently it has been revitalised in a new form.
Telegrams are now being used by businesses to pass on important information quickly to their clients, such as "your power is about to be cut off - pay your bill immediately."
New Zealand Post's general manager of payment services, Terese Tunnicliffe, says modern telegrams are more advanced and sentences don't always end with STOP. She says they are primarily being used as a means of debt collection, but could be also be used for marketing.
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