“LOVE” STRUCK OUT
ECONOMY IN TELEGRAMS PUBLIC AN APT PUPIL LONDON, March 22. “Love finds a way out,” says postal officials, commenting on the declaration by the Postmaster-General, Sir Kingsley Wood, that the public’s skill in telegram condensation is increasing. The officials point out, says the “Star,” that the Post Office has been campaigning for years to teach condensation in order to increase the use of telegrams. The public was such an apt pupil that the lessons have “boomeranged” on the Post Office, which is losing revenue. Except when love is very new or very old, “Love” is the first word struck out to secure twelve words for a shilling. The once-familiar business man’s telegram, informing his wife he would not be. home for dinner, has almost disappeared, because it affords a deadly clue to the place of dispatch, compared with the anymity of the telephone. Condensation has increased the wastage of forms, 60,000,000 of which are used anually, while 45,000,000 telegrams are lodged.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 86, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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