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connected to Vaugirard. Subscri-
bers had to prove their eligibility by
providing their latest telephone bill
or their subscriber contract.
To benefit from the same rate, the
pneumatic mail sent to subscribers
had to show the telephone number
of the subscriber on the mail, in ad-
dition to their address.
Other Parisian telephone ex-
changes were impacted by the
same weather event and the
subscribers affected requested the
benefit of the same service. Howe-
ver, it was not granted on the basis Le Petit Journal, 20 July 1927 Le Petit Journal, 12 October 1927.
of the fact that their service had not
been disrupted for as long. There
was, however, one known excep-
tion, which was presented at the
conference.
Completion of the repairs at the
Segur exchange were first an-
nounced and celebrated on 15 Au-
gust, but the announcement was
premature. It took another two
months to fix the problem.
It was only on 24 October 1927 that
a circular from the government an-
nounced that the telephone lines
of the subscribers who had been
impacted by the floods in July were
again working. And that the special
rate of €0.30 for pneumatic mail
sent by the subscribers or their A later (and not very up-to-date) illustration of the special “storm rate” of 17 October 1927,
Paris 60 (rue de la Convention, 15th arrondissement), destination serviced by Paris 80. The
correspondents would end on re- subscriber’s telephone number (Vaugirard 08-60/74) does not appear on the envelope, but
ceipt of the circular. In the end, the this is likely because they were well-known, which meant that they were allowed to use the
special rate for this mail.
“storm rate” would last three mon-
ths and seven days.

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