At The Post-Office

At The Post-Office

The post-office plays a great role in our life. Could you imagine you communication with your friend, for example, from Britain, without letters, which you couldn’t send him? Of course, today you can use internet mail, which gets to the addressee much quicker than the ordinary mail, but how will you get, for ex., the present from your granny from Canada for your birthday? So, you can agree, that mail and the post office are quiet important today. Mail connects people living in different cities and countries.

A post office is a place, where mail is received, sorted, and delivered, and where stamps, postcards, envelopes and other postal materials are sold. There are many different operations handled at the post office: you can send a telegram or money order, make international call, subscribe to newspapers or magazines. Also at some post-offices there is a special window where you may pay your rent, telephone, gas and electricity bills.

There are several windows marked, different counters, which are responsible for various operations. At the inquiry window you will get answer for all kinds of questions, you have. If you need help, you’re looking for something or you have any complains, you can apply to this window.

At one of the windows marked “Stamps” you can buy everything you need for sending letter: envelopes, stamps, post cards. You can write a letter right at the post-office and post it or at home and then drop it into one of the postboxes throughout the city.
When you want to send a letter, you must write the address on the envelope and paste the required stamps on it.
Different letters and packages get to the addressee in different time. It depends on length of the distance, which it goes to the addressee. If the recipient is on the other continent, there is an air mail, which will deliver a letter or parcel to receiver in the shortest possible time.
For a registered letter, an air-mail letter or an ordinary letter to another country, we must...