Telegrams STOP: End of service delivering joy and heartache
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23271384
"India's last telegram will be sent on Sunday night as the country's state-run telegraph service shuts down. It has been in decline for decades, but once touched the lives of millions of Indians ever year, writes Geeta Pandey.
As a child growing up in Calcutta in the 1970s and 1980s, I always felt a sense of foreboding every time a knock on the door announced the arrival of a telegram........."
I really had not thought about telegram service in years until I read this story.