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American Telegram® has been in the Telegram Business since 1986, with thousands of Agents nationwide and throughout Canada, hand delivering Telegrams, plus other carriers handling overnight and 2 day hand delivery of Telegram messages, in addition to Telegrams sent through our International Telegram Network. Both our company and Western Union are (were) the two companies regulated by the FCC with a 214 authorization (although we now operate as an enhanced service provider under Title: I) and our product is just what you would expect a Telegram to look like. As a regulated company, American Telegram® has billing and collection agreements, to bill customer’s phones for service, just like Western Union.







As a Carrier of last resort, American Telegram® often provides Emergency Service where no other means of communication is available, such as after a disaster or when a recipient's telephone line is not operational. The Telegram Division in its' 20th year of operation is the predominant provider of Telegraphic Service in the United States and Canada and has been the only competing Carrier authorized by the FCC, providing such service.







American Telegram® is a wiring network for products and services delivered same day, next day, 2 days or more. There are other competitors who try to copy what we do. We have been referred to as 'The Rolls Royce of our Industry". American Telegram® was created to make sure that messages sent, were delivered in a timely manner as promised.







American Telegram® has been on the cover of Inc. Magazine as one of America's fastest growing companies. We are also affiliated with 1-800-Flowergram®.com, 1-800-Candygram®.com - Candy with a Telegram Message (used as a running gag on Saturday Night Live, and in movies such as Hoodwinked, Wedding Crashers and Blazing Saddles) and Balloongram®.com.







Telegrams are a 'niche' business, used when impact is needed, for legal purposes like canceling a contract, or when email or faxes are unknown. When there's a political crisis, you can be sure our lines and web site are flooded with Telegrams to the Capitol, the House of Representatives and all the players involved. The Telegram industry is a multi-million dollar industry, with clients using us to do mass mailings to notify their customers, their employees and a list too long to explain here. It is the day to day business of Telegrams that has decreased, but even that business is still good (just not what it once was). I can assure you, we are alive and well. We hope you will log onto American Telegram®.com to see what we are all about.







Marian Meyers, CEO & Founder



American Telegram®
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Telegrams were great at getting attention. They were delivered to anyone PERSONALLY at the time chosen by Western Union at a much cheaper cost than what is available now.

]]>Mar 13th 2006 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Apr 27th 2006 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.telegramstop.com that blends the experience of a classic telegram of the old days with the benefits of the web, it looks really cool. Time poor people can type their message (yes it even inserts the word "STOP" where ever you use a period ".") and creates classic looking telegram, mails the original to your recipient from any country to any international or national destination, and emails the sender a cool version of it. It even gives you a preview sample in old typewriter fonts to proof before sending. Pretty good and not expensive - we've had a blast using it to for friends getting married overseas.]]>Mar 17th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Aug 28th 2006 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Sep 16th 2006 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/
You have to admit - in its day a telegram was a lot more glamorous than an email or an emoticon is today. Or picking your snail mail up at the local American Express office while summering in Paris...
]]>Feb 1st 2006 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/I hope this does not affect engadget cellphone sales to Nigeria ga.
Recommend you transition telegrams to blind teletype machines ga.
Good luck! Ga.]]>Feb 1st 2006 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/
Obviously even if you're not into computer or SMS stuff, it's faster to just fax something, but there's something so cool about telegraphs.]]>Feb 1st 2006 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/noooooo!

they should have kept this as a novelty. in fact, just streamline it, use email instead, type it out on an archaic looking typewriter font, and add all the "stop."s in there.

they'd make money, too, charging a couple dollars for an email.]]>Feb 1st 2006 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 1st 2006 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.dawn.com/2006/01/02/top16.htm]]>Feb 1st 2006 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.telegrams.ca/You can still use telegrams canada (http://www.telegrams.ca/)]]>Feb 1st 2006 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/
bb]]>Feb 2nd 2006 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 2nd 2006 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 2nd 2006 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 2nd 2006 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/
The ugliest part is she received the telegram when I was with her in his house :D lol]]>Feb 2nd 2006 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 2nd 2006 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 2nd 2006 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 2nd 2006 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 3rd 2006 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/western-union-telegram-service-will-stop/Feb 5th 2006 4:52PM