Most service points of Western Union work in the time convenient for customers throughout the week and throughout the year. Money transfer is a matter of minutes, at any distance. July 3, 1884 the company's shares were included in the calculation base for the newly created stock index Dow Jones Transportation Average. The Western Union Company is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Western Union made so that the time in all of American civil services was the same. Western Union for more than 130 years provides money transfer services to its customers.