Phone it in?

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.

-- Western Union internal memo, 1876

Well Western Union has changed their mind since this quote. Can't you wire money via telephone using Western Union? How could they be so blind as to not see the benefits and convenience of the telephone? On the other hand, I know that the phone of 1876 was a lot different back then. Hell, the phones of the 1990s were a lot different then phones now.