Postal service

The Post Office

We buy stamps at the post office.

The stamps go onto our letters.

We post our letters into the mail box.

A postal worker delivers our letters.

After a letter is written or a package tied up, the address of who is to receive the mail is written on the envelope for the letter, and on the outside of the package. The address includes the name of the person, and where in the country they live; the street name and the number of the building are part of the address. A special number called a postcode is also a part of the address.

At the post office we buy stamps to put on letters and on post cards. We can buy stamps for parcels and packages too. All the letters, post cards and parcels are called mail. The money we pay for the stamps is used to pay all the people it takes to run the post office and deliver mail to our houses.

After stamps are put onto each letter or card, or small package, they can be dropped into a mail box. Large parcels and packages are left at the post office.

Each day the mail is collected from mail boxes and from post offices and taken by truck to the mail centre.

At the mail centre, machines separate letters and parcels. Then other machines sort where each letter and package is to go. The postcode, that special number in the address, and other special codes are used by the machines to sort the mail so it will get to the right place in the country.

You can see a video of how mail is collected and sorted at the mail centre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYFtalTNzKk

Some mail is sent by plane

The sorted mail is then sent to other states or to countries overseas. It travels by ship or by aeroplanes, by truck or by van.
When it arrives, the mail is and taken to a post office and sorted again so it can be delivered. Postal workers deliver the mail to the right suburb, street, house or building and to the person it is addressed to.

Postal workers use motorbikes, bicycles or vans as they deliver the mail.

Letters can also be written and sent on a computer. This is called email.
You can write email to kidcyber us@kidcyber.com.au

If you use any part of this in your work, list the source in your bibliography like this:
Thomas, Ron. & Sydenham, Shirley. The Post Office [Online] www.kidcyber.com.au (2010)