Where to receive a telex in Bangkok. I thought that went out with the arc?

[VocalNeal]

Apparently I need to receive a telex. Anyone know where to receive one in Bangkok! I thought a bank but there is nothing listed for my branch of SCB. 

 

I also thought telex was obsolete!

[GinBoy2]

It doesn’t exist in the old sense of telex machines, but there is still a system in place.

 

This is the wiki final para on ‘Telex'

 

 

Telex is still in operation but not in the sense described in the CCITT Blue Book documentation. iTelegram offers "telex" without subscriber telex lines. Individual subscribers can use Deskmail, a legacy Windows program that connects to the iTelegram telex network but this is via IP as the "last mile".,^[19][20] Telex has been mostly superseded by fax, email, and SWIFT, although radiotelex, telex via HF radio, is still used in the maritime industry and is a required element of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System.

See Telegraphy § 21st-century decline for current status in different countries.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex

 

[Pib]

Since you mentioned "bank" in your "telex" question, did you really mean to say receive a Telegraphic Transfer (TT) as in receive funds.   If so every Thai bank has a SWIFT code which would be used to receive the TT/direct the TT to that bank along with the bank account the funds are to flow in.....just google it or go to the bank's website for their SWIFT code.

 

 

[GinBoy2]

Just now, Pib said:

Since you mentioned "bank" in your "telex" question, did you really mean to say receive a Telegraphic Transfer (TT) as in receive funds.   If so every Thai bank has a SWIFT code which would be used to receive the TT/direct the TT to that bank along with the bank account the funds are to flow in.....just google it or go to the bank's website for their SWIFT code.

 

Now that makes a lot more sense to me than a 'real' Telex. Interesting thought, got me trying to remember when I last saw a Telex machine? Got to be 20 years or more