23 Postal services

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There are Post Offices in every town and nearly every village in the country. If you want to post an ordinary letter, a postcard or a small parcel you needn't go to the Post Office, you can drop it inti the nearest pillar-box. You can recognize these easily in England, because they're painted red. If you want  to send a telegram, you can either take it to the nearest Post Office or dictate it over the telephone. Pillar-boxes are  emptied several times a day. If you want your letter to arrive more quickly than by ordinary post you can send it by Air Mail. Letters are delivered to your home or office by a postman and telegrams by a telegraph-boy. Here you can see what the inside of a Post Office looks like. On one side of the counter you see several customers on the other side the clerks. One of the people inthe picture is buying postage-stamps, another is registering a letter, the third is writing out a cable. If you want to buy stamps you must go to the right counter; if you go to the wrong one, you'll only waste your time. Ask for a halfpenny stamp a treepenny stamp and so on. If you want to send a parcel you hand it to the assistant, who weighs it on scales and gives you the necessary stamps. The amount you have to pay depends on the weight of the parcel. In most Post Offices and also in many streets there are public telephone-boxes from which you can telephone. All you have to do is lift the receiver put into the slot the pennies due for the call and dial the first three letters of the exchange you want, followed by the number.

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