When you have a post-office box, the postman does not bring letters to you, but you go to the post -office and get your letters and parcels from your box. The box is locked, and you have the key, so the letters are quite safe. One day, the headmaster of a school wrote to the postoffice and asked for a post-office box for his school. He soon got an answer. It said, ‘We will give you a post-box in one month.’
Three months later, the headmaster wrote to the postoffice again and said, ‘Why haven’t we got a post-office box yet?’
This was the answer from the post-office:
‘Dear Sir, We gave you a post-office box two months ago and wrote to you then to tell you. Here is the key to your box. You will find our letter to you in it.’
What happens when you have a post-office box ?
Why are the letters safe when they are in a post-office box ?
What happened one day ?
What happened then ?
What was the answer ?
What happened three months later ?
What was the answer from the post-office ?
