UNIT 19 At the post office

Here’s your receipt now. Please have it well-wrapt and sailed.

Where is the nearest post office?

How do I get the post office?

What time do the post office open?

How much is the air mail letter to the People’s Republic China ?

Excuse me . Could you please find the postcodes for all those letters?

I’d like to send this letter special delivery.

I’d like to send this letter to NewYork.

Please pays this airmail stagger and Envelop when you send it airmail.

I want to have this letter registered.

It’s not overweight.

Do you have conmainer to this stamps?

Is this sufficiently stamped?

How long does this letter take to go there by email?

What does this parcel contain?

I want to send this telegraph, How much per word?

Where can I buy envelops and writing paper?

This is your postal receipt.

Would you give me an international stamp Q-band , please?

Can I catch the last mail today?

The parcel counter is the third on the left.

If the cable is urgent ,the rate will be doubled.

Please send this order.

Conversation

Dialogue 1

A: What’s the postage on this letter to HongHong ,please?

B: Oh, I have to check. Do you need anything else?

A: Yes, Five one dollar stamps, please.

B: That will be fourteen dollars in all.

Dialogue 2:

A: Three twenty-five cent stamps ,please.

B: Here you are .seventy-five cent ,please.

A: And please sent this letter by registered mail.

B: Is there anything valuable in it?

A: There’s a check of two hundred dollars and photograph.

B: Shall I make out a receipt?

A: No. don’t bother.

B: That‘ll be ninety-five cents in all.

Dialogue 3:

A: Next ,please. Hello, may I help you ,sir?

B: I want to send a registered airmail letter to France.

A: Ok, it comes four dollars twenty cents.

B: Here is five dollars.

A; Here is your change. Please wait for your receipt of the registered mail.

B: I also want to pack up my package. This is the notes.

A: Let me see. En.. just a minute. Here it is . I need your signature on this note.

B: Oh ,one more thing, where can I mail this letter?

A: Drop it in the mail box mark out of town. at that corner.

B: Thank you very much.

A: You‘re welcome.

Dialogue 4:

A: Would you please wait this letter to see with the postages ?

B: do you want to sent this letter by ordinary or registered mail?

A: By ordinary airmail please.

B: Anything valuable in it?

A: A post order for four hundred dollars.

B: In that case ,you’d better have a register.

A: Will I be informed that my friend gets the letter.?

B: Yes. When your friend gets it ,he’ll sent the receipt which you send it by mail. then you can be sure he’s received.

A: All right . I have a registered then.

Dialogue 5:

A: Would you tell me how I send this parcel to ShangHai ,China? It contains only books.

B: You may send it as printed matter.

A: I wonder if you could have ensured here.

B: Of course. How much would you want to ensure this books for?

A: Let me see. I think I can have the ensured five hundred dollars.

B: five hundred dollars ,so you’ll pay ten dollars for the insurance. That’s two percent of the total value of the article.

A: Here ‘s the check for hen dollars.