One day, the headmaster of a school wrote to the post-office and asked for a post-office box for his school. He soon got an answer. It said, ‘ We will give you a post-office box in one month.’
Three months later, the headmaster wrote to the post-office 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 out letter to you in it.’
Please answer these questions below.
1. What happened when you have a post-office box ?
2. Why are the letters safe when they are in a post-office box ?
3. What happened one day ?
4. What happened then ?
5. What was the answer ?
6. What happened three months later ?
7. What was the answer from the post-office ?