There are times when you need to urgently congratulate someone or notify on some issue. A telegram is used to solve this problem. Telegrams have a dry, concise style of presentation, not expressing emotions or attitude to the situation. Many people, faced with the need to send a telegram, are lost. They do not know how to fill out the form correctly, compose the text and what features are inherent in telegrams.
Instruction manual
1
Compose the telegram text in capital letters, clearly and legibly. Between the words, leave a gap in two spaces. Use a telegraphic language for telegrams that excludes the use of prepositions, conjunctions and punctuation marks. The necessary punctuation marks are replaced by letter abbreviations: comma - zpt, dot - dot, brackets - skb, quotation marks - kWh. Signs such as +, -, !, №, ?, % And others are written in words without abbreviations. Arabic numerals are used to indicate the date with the sequence date, month, year, since no spaces are inserted between the numbers.
2
Fill in the telegram address. If the point to which the telegram is addressed has a telegraph connection, then the following shall be indicated: index, name of the region, name of the region, name of the settlement, street, house and name of the addressee. If there is no telegraph communication, only the district, oblast, settlement and the name of the telegram recipient are indicated. There are a number of rules for writing certain words in addresses. The abbreviation is used in the following words: building - "building", building - "page", street - "street", apartment - "square", house - "d". In this case, the word home or "d" is sometimes not indicated before the number. Such words as district, region, village, passage, avenue, porch, alley, quarter, boulevard and others are completely written in a telegram. The telegram can be sent, in addition to the full address, to the abbreviated address, to the number of the subscriber box, on demand, to the address of the field post, to the address of river and sea vessels, to the number of the telegram received.
3
Indicate the address and surname of the sender. It is unnecessary to pay for this part of the telegram and it will not be transmitted by telegraphy.
4
Give the completed telegram form to the telegraph, who calculates its cost, and pay for sending the telegram.
