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Originally Posted by mrmopar
,,,,,as the recipient of a telegram, i doubt Aaron would have signed it. It's possible they were kept and later passed on or sold and that person somehow got them signed later. That would be my best guess as to why they exist.
It's also possible they are completely BS and just made to look like a legit telegram and sold that way either signed or even unsigned (and later signed).
First time seeing one here, so I am just tossing out guesses and assumptions.
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I would tend to agree with the above. If signed by Hank Aaron it would have had to been signed later and gotten from Hank Aaron himself as the P.O. would have sent these to him direct. Of course, someone could argue that a P.O. employee kept copies and had them signed.
"Mailgram is a type of telegraphic message which was transmitted electronically from the sender to a post office and then printed and delivered to the recipient via postal means.
Western Union invented the Mailgram in 1970. Service via Westar, Western Union’s own communications satellite was introduced in 1974.
Western Union discontinued all telegram messaging, including Mailgram, in 2006."