15 Years of Western Union at Thiruvananthapuram
A Special Cover Was Released Today, On June 22, 2016 In Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala, India On Transforming Lives, Since 15 Years – Western Union (WU). This is the 3rd Western Union Cover of the year, Delhi, Lucknow and now Thiruvananthapuram.
The Western Union Company is an American financial services and communications company. Its North American headquarters is in Meridian, Colorado, though the postal designation of nearby Englewood is used in its mailing address. Up until it discontinued the service in 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S. company in the business of exchanging telegrams.
Western Union has several divisions, with products such as person-to-person money transfer, money orders, business payments and commercial services. They offered standard “Cablegrams”, as well as more cheerful products such as Candygrams, Dollygrams, and Melodygrams.
Western Union, as an industrialized monopoly, dominated the telegraph industry in the late 19th century. It was the first communications empire and set a pattern for American-style communications businesses as they are known today.
