Altogether 150,000 individual private telegrams and state dispatches were delivered. Preliminary orders were rushed out verbally or by telegrams, telephone, and air mail letters. The 3DB switchboard was flooded with calls, followed by thousands of letters and 500 telegrams. The decline was briefly postponed by the rise of special occasion congratulatory telegrams. He sent numerous telegrams protesting their arrest to Washington. Article 18 established the privacy of letters, telegrams and telephone conversations as "absolutely inviolable". It took three days to complete the telegrams and follow-up letters. This has reduced the reliance of citizens on telegrams and letters. From this gunboat, Rabe sent two telegrams. They were used by businesses which sent a large number of telegrams. At their peak in 1929, an estimated 200 million telegrams were sent. Wallace and Kennedy exchanged volatile telegrams over it. Copies of these mendacious telegrams are preserved in the Jordanian archives. The RNC and other political offices received millions of telegrams and phone calls supporting Nixon. Two telegrams from workers' parties in France and Spain were also read out.