Friday, 30
April, after which the
few thousand annual users who still rely on telegrams to
send something memorable will no longer be able to do so.
Telegrams in Hungary
Dr Szilvia-Andrea Holló, current director of
Budapest’s Postal Museum.
“So telegrams were common, reaching their recipient within four hours. However, sending a telegram wasn’t cheap, you had to pay for it word by word. Telegrams sent to relatives, acquaintances, friends and colleagues were often kept as souvenirs.“
Introduced here in the
World War II,
The gleaming private telephone of
former Hungarian leader Miklós Horthy, nine kilos of bright copper, currently sits in a state of expert repair at the desk of