Re: You Can Still Send a Western Union Mailgram
Jim Haynes
Lisa Hancock <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> The Western Union website IIRC says Mailgrams are no longer provided.
> Could it be that the Mailgram is provided by a separate company?
Well it could be that New Valley sold the "Western Union Mailgram"
service mark to someone other than the buyer of the Western Union
money transfer service -- I don't know.
The preprinted form, blue on white paper, says "Western Union
Messaging Services" with the Western Union in the familiar shape of
one word above the other and a vertical line to the right. Then
Messaging Services is in fine print under that. And then it says
United States Postal Service with the USPS eagle logo. And has the
number 800-325-6000 printed on the back.
jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
Ray Normandeau
news:<telecom2...@telecom-digest.org>:
> hay...@alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes) wrote:
>> Because I just received one today. There's a toll-free number on
>> the back to reply by Mailgram - 800-325-6000
> The Western Union website IIRC says Mailgrams are no longer provided.
> Could it be that the Mailgram is provided by a separate company?
Could it be that the Postal Service delivery service quality control
has fallen futher then I suspect.
I am expecting a package that says attempted delivery, and that a note
was left when no attempt was made.
This is as per USPS WWW tacking site.
I think the workers just scan the pacjage and let it sit at the Post
Office.
Carpenter
>> the back to reply by Mailgram - 800-325-6000
> The Western Union website IIRC says Mailgrams are no longer provided.
> Could it be that the Mailgram is provided by a separate company?
I found both mailgrams and telegrams on their web site as still being
provided.
http://www.westernunion.com/info/bsMessaging.asp?country=3DU1#mailgram
J Kelly
> hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) wrote in message
> news:<telecom2...@telecom-digest.org>:
>> hay...@alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes) wrote:
>>> Because I just received one today. There's a toll-free number on
>>> the back to reply by Mailgram - 800-325-6000
>> The Western Union website IIRC says Mailgrams are no longer provided.
>> Could it be that the Mailgram is provided by a separate company?
> Could it be that the Postal Service delivery service quality control
> has fallen futher then I suspect.
> I am expecting a package that says attempted delivery, and that a
> note was left when no attempt was made.
> This is as per USPS WWW tacking site.
> I think the workers just scan the pacjage and let it sit at the Post
> Office.
Yes, sometime they do. I sent a package once that said it was
delivered to the recipient. The guy kept emailing me wanting to know
where it was. After a couple weeks of that I went to my post office
and asked the Postmaster about it. He said it had been delivered
according to the Delivery Confirmation number.
Upon further investigation using the tracking number on the insurance
tag we find out that it was NOT delivered, and was in fact waiting for
the customer to pick it up at the Chicago P.O. Had I not insured the
package it is probable that we never would have found that package
since the post office never left a notice that it had attempted
delivery. I should add that I send and recieve a fair number of USPS
Priority Mail packages, and only once has anything like that happened,
usually they get where they are supposed to go quickly and without
incident.
Lisa Hancock
> Lisa Hancock <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>> The Western Union website IIRC says Mailgrams are no longer provided.
I checked their website. I was mistaken; WU still offers Mailgrams.
See:
http://www.westernunion.com/info/bsMessaging.asp?country=U1
Sorry about that.