If you want to buy stamps, postcards, envelopes, to send a telegram or money order, to subscribe to newspapers or magazines, you have to go to the post-office.
   At some post-offices there is a special window where you may pay your rent, telephone, gas and electricity bills.
   Yesterday, I had to send a parcel to my friend in another city. So I went to the nearest post-office. I handed the package to the clerk at the window marked "Parcel Post". She weighed it and I paid for the stamps which she stuck on the package.
   Then I went to the next window marked "Stamps". I had to queue up there. When my turn came, I bought writing paper, envelopes and a few stamps. I sat down at a desk and wrote a letter. When the letter was ready, I wrote the address on the envelope, stuck a stamp on it and dropped it into the nearest letter-box.
   
   Questions:
   1. Where do you have to go if you want to buy stamps, postcards, envelopes, to send a telegram or money order?
   2. Where may you pay your rent, telephone, gas and electricity bills?
   3. Where can you buy stamps and envelopes?
   4. What is it necessary to do if you want to send a parcel to your friend?

   I like to go to the post-office because post is one of the things that link people living in different cities and countries. There are some counters at the post-office. At one of them you can buy envelopes, stamps, post cards. You can write a letter right there and post it or you can write it at home and then throw it into one of postboxes throughout the city. It is very convenient because you don't have to go to the post office again.
   At another counter you can send a telegram. To do this, you need to fill in the form, give it to the clerk and pay the sum according to the number of words in your telegram.
   At another counter you can send or get parcels. To send a parcel you have to bring it to the post-office, the clerk will weight it and tell you how much money you have to pay. To get a parcel, you need to show your passport, so that the post- office clerk were sure that it is really you who is to receive the parcel. At the next counter you can make a subscription to newspapers and magazines. You need to pay certain amount of money, which is stated in the catalog, and your favourite newspapers and magazines will be delivered directly to your home. At the post-office, there are also P.O. boxes. P.O. box means post office box, it is a numbered box to which someone's mail can be sent and from which they can collect it.
   
   Questions:
   1. Where can envelopes and stamps be bought?
   2. Do you need to go to the post-office again if you want to send a letter which you wrote at home?
   3. What do you need to do to send a telegram?
   4. How can you send a parcel?
   5. Is it possible that your favourite newspapers and magazines were delivered directly to your home?
   6. What is a P.O. box?