Today I listened to an interesting story about laying the transatlantic telegraph cable and decided to check if telegrams still exist.
They indeed do, and in the USA, they are outrageously expensive. $23 plus $0.75 per word, plus an additional $20 for sending to a private address. It brings to mind “Izzy’s all.”
For $15 plus $5 for every 35 words, they send an email. There are services for sending and receiving telexs ($13 + $0.89 per word). There’s a separate “Political message” rate at $26 + $0.60 per word.
There’s an option to send telegrams through the mail, Postalgram, but you pay not to the post office, but to American Telegram. $30 + $10 for a batch of 30 words.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 