Is this a fact? Were taxi drivers asked to bring around the telegrams? It does makes sense since they (suppose to) know where every street is.
shareI don't know but If the movie is factual in most of aspects, I guess that story is featured in the book. Which I think of reading sometime :-)
shareIt was during Vietnam that the Pentagon started Chaplins delivering the news w/a small retinue. Like the movie says, the military was totally unprepared so taxis who normally delivered telegrams were at first used. Some cab drivers quit rather than perform their duty. After many complaints to the Pentagon the policy was changed.
Back in the days of WWII a boy on his bicycle would deliver telegrams. Would you rather receive such news from a cabbie or a kid? *gulp*
When telephones were not so common, Western Union had delivery boys deliver telegrams, by the late fifties, it was cheaper to just call a cab company to make the delivery, since then Western Union only had to pay the driver for the delivery.
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