Never permit the receiver to pay for a message that is exclusively on your own business.
Always make and keep a copy of every important telegram you send away. Do not neglect this.
If you have neglected to keep a copy of a telegram, or having made one have lost it, you may get a copy from the telegraph office, provided the application be made within six months of the sending of the message.
Telegrams are delivered by the company's messengers.
You must give receipt to the messenger on the delivery of a telegram.
Where the receiver lives a long distance from the telegraph office, it is customary to pay the messenger an additional fee, depending on the distance.
The charges for telegrams to be sent at night and delivered in the morning, are much lower than for day messages.
For an additional charge, less than the original, messages may be repeated back to insure their accuracy.
Read over to the official, or still better, have him read your message over in your presence, that you may be sure he understands it as written.
You cannot hold others responsible for your own mistakes.