• 2 months ago
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00:00Oh, the post office is approaching. Shall we go in for a minute? I need some stamps.
00:07Raju, this is a post office. When people want to send letters, telegrams, parcels, etc.,
00:18they can send it through the post office. People post letters in post boxes like this
00:25one which are kept at convenient locations. The letters are then collected and reach
00:31the post office, after which they are sorted on the basis of their locations. They are
00:37then sent to the post offices in the destination locations. Postmen there then finally reach
00:44them to their actual destinations. Give me twenty five rupees stamps please.
00:51What are these stamps used for mummy? When we want to send letters by post, we have
00:57to affix a stamp of the required amount on the envelope, like on these envelopes here.
01:04This is the mechanism by which we pay the post office for their services in reaching
01:09our letters. What else can we send by post apart from letters?
01:14We can also send parcels through the post office. Remember, for your last birthday,
01:20your cousin in Delhi had sent you that toy car by a post parcel.
01:24Oh, yes, I remember. That was a great toy. That uncle must be sending a parcel then.
01:34Yes, see, they are weighing the parcel. Usually, heavier the parcel, the more the postal charges.
01:41If I write to my cousin in Delhi, will my letter reach him tomorrow mummy?
01:48No Raju, the postal service will usually take about three to four days. However, if
01:54it is urgent, then there is a facility called speed post wherein the letter may reach your
02:00cousin the next day itself. Of course, this will cost us more.
02:04What is a money order? It is a way of sending money to people in
02:08other places. For example, every month I take a money order for rupees one thousand for
02:14my old uncle in our native village. I can pay the money here in the post office and
02:20fill in the money order form, which even has place for me to write a small message. This
02:26will be transmitted to the post office in our village, which will then send their postman
02:31to pay the money and deliver the message to my uncle in his house.
02:35I know our postman Ramdayal Kaka. Why is he not here?
02:41How do you know him? Well, he brings a school report card home.
02:47And then you look gloomy. Ramdayal must be out delivering letters.
02:53Let's go, we are getting late for the airport. Here are some things we see in a post office.
03:01This is a post box. Post boxes are kept at various convenient locations across cities
03:10and towns so that people can drop in their letters in them.
03:15This is a postage stamp. We have to affix a postage stamp of the right value on any
03:23envelope that we wish to send by post. Usually the heavier the envelope, the higher
03:29will be the value of the postage stamp required. This is a money order form.
03:35We can fill in such a form when we wish to send money to anyone through the postal system.
03:41It will be transmitted to the local post office of the person to whom we are sending it
03:47and the postman therein will then deliver it to the concerned person.
03:52This is a post parcel. We can send parcels like these by post by booking them at our
04:02local post office. This is an inland letter. We can write inside this, address it correctly
04:10and drop it into any post box. It will then be delivered to the concerned person.
04:17This is a postcard. This is a very inexpensive and effective means of sending letters to
04:27people as it is cheaper than an inland letter or postal envelope.
04:33This is a postal envelope. We can write or print our letters and enclose them in this
04:40postal envelope which can then be dropped into any post box.