It's 3AM on Saturday morning, Duty Officer. The phone rings. Time to move!
ROUTINE: A precedence designator used for all telegrams not sufficiently urgent to justify a higher precedence designator.
IMMEDIATE: A precedence designator restricted to telegrams of such urgency as to require immediate attention or action during normal duty hours. Immediate telegrams are not urgent enough to require attention after regular duty hours, holidays, or weekends.
NIACT: A handling symbol used in conjunction with the IMMEDIATE precedence designator to indicate that a telegram requires immediate attention or action by the addressee regardless of the time of day or night. NIACT is an acronym for night action required.
FLASH: The highest precedence designation, reserved for the most urgent telegrams containing information vitally affecting the conduct of foreign relations and requiring instant attention by the addressee, regardless of the time of day or night.
Critic: A handling symbol and precedence for specially formatted telegrams conveying national security information that must be routed to NSA and then delivered to the highest levels of the U.S. Government as fast as possible.
ROUTINE: A precedence designator used for all telegrams not sufficiently urgent to justify a higher precedence designator.
IMMEDIATE: A precedence designator restricted to telegrams of such urgency as to require immediate attention or action during normal duty hours. Immediate telegrams are not urgent enough to require attention after regular duty hours, holidays, or weekends.
NIACT: A handling symbol used in conjunction with the IMMEDIATE precedence designator to indicate that a telegram requires immediate attention or action by the addressee regardless of the time of day or night. NIACT is an acronym for night action required.
FLASH: The highest precedence designation, reserved for the most urgent telegrams containing information vitally affecting the conduct of foreign relations and requiring instant attention by the addressee, regardless of the time of day or night.
Critic: A handling symbol and precedence for specially formatted telegrams conveying national security information that must be routed to NSA and then delivered to the highest levels of the U.S. Government as fast as possible.
Size guide
| XS | S | M | L | XL | 2XL | 3XL | |
| Length (inches) | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 |
| Width (inches) | 16 ½ | 18 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 28 |