Quotes About Western Union

The Soviet Union welcomed the new system. At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, urgent messages from the Soviet ambassador in Washington had been encoded by hand and then given to a Western Union messenger who arrived at the embassy on a bicycle.

Telegram, the uniformed Western Union man said as I opened the door.

Less than two years later the swashbuckling operation was shut down when the Western Union Telegraph Company finished stringing its lines.

International money transfer is a massive consumer rip-off. Banks and companies like Western Union have gotten away with it for too long.

Mustafa Alhawsawi, a brother of one hijacker, sent them $18,000 via Western Union. He also received by return transfer all the group's leftover funds—about $42,000—when the hijackers wound up their affairs in late August 2001 and prepared to die.

If you're not very busy, a grown man in the uniform of a Western Union boy should make you feel a little sick.