BOOM IN TELEGRAMS
The introduction of the sixpenny telegram in England has resulted in a great boom in the business of the telegraph branch of the General Post Office. During the last week in July nearly 1,200,000 inland telegrams were sent, an increase of 54 per cent, over the figures for the corresponding period of 1934. before the sixpenny telegram was introduced. And the General Post Office benefited in two ways. For of those 1,200,000 telegrams. 380.000 (32 par cent.) were dictated to the Post Office by telephone.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1936, Page 10
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88BOOM IN TELEGRAMS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1936, Page 10
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