5. Complete the following sentences:

1. A letter of attorney must contain…

2. People insure their parcels in order to…

3. Filling in the money order form you are to state…

4. Money order may be cashed on presenting…

5. At the municipal services counter you may pay…

6. All you need to deposit or to withdraw some money from your account is…

7. A telegram must be economically worded because…

8. Inside every Post Office there is…

9. When we`ve written a letter we…

10. When you register your letter you…

11. If you don`t know the addressee`s full address…

12. If you have an urgent message to convey…

13. To send a parcel you must have it…

14. The postmark bears…

6. Ask your fellow-students and let them answer:

…what operations Post Office handles in this country;

…where you can buy such small items as stamps, envelopes, postcards, etc ;

…what kinds of letters can be sent in Ukraine;

…when it`s advisable to send your letter registered;

…when people send letters marked “post-restante”;

…how you address the envelope if you want the letter to follow the addressee to a new address;

…how many mail collections and deliveries there are daily in your town;

…if there is any weight limit for book-post;

…what one can send by book-post;

…what it is necessary to do to have your parcel insured;

…where you can get a box for your parcel;

…if there is any charge for the sender`s address in the telegram;

…what you must do if you want someone to cash a money order for you ;

…what you are to fill in if you need to withdraw money from your account;

…what bills can be payed at the municipal service counter;

7. Respond to the following sentences according to the pattern ,use the hints given in brackets.

Pattern:

-Ann complained that she had had to pay a double postage for my letter.

( to send the letter unstamped)

-Haven`t I told you that it was a bad idea to send the letter unstamped.

1. We can`t buy this fridge. We don`t have enough cash (to withdraw money from your account).

2. It looks as if nobody were going to meet us. May be our letter hasn`t come yet. ( to send an urgent telegram).

3. They charged so much for the telegram. (to be economically worded ).

4. Again they haven`t this magazine on sale. ( to subscribe for your favourite periodicals ).

5. The letter with my diploma hasn`t come yet. It must have been lost. ( to register it ) .

6. They refused to cash your money order. I couldn`t convince them that it`s your signature. ( to be officially witnessed ) .

7. I sent the letter a month ago and it hasn`t yet reached the addressee. What if it`s lost? (to sign the envelope legibly ) .

8. The airplane is reported to have crashed and all the mail it was carrying has burned down. ( to have the parcel insured ) .

9. I owe a big sum of money for various municipal services but I have neither time nor desire to settle all these bills. ( to instruct the bank to pay the bills by drawing the necessary sums from your depositor`s account ) .

8. What would you do (or say) if:

• you received a letter marked “Collect”;

• you wanted to send a letter with some important documents;

• your parcel contained something valuable;

• you had no paper to wrap your parcel;

• you didn`t know how to fill in a money-order form properly;

• you had some bills to pay;

• you wanted to have your mail sent to your new address;

• you wanted to get your poste restante mail;

• you wanted to cash your friend`s money order.