POST OFFICE CLERK: Good afternoon, madam.

ANNE: How much does it cost to send a letter to Italy, please?

CLERK: By air?

ANNE: Yes.

CLERK: Twelve pence.

ANNE: I'll have a twelve pence stamp, please.

CLERK: Here you are.

ANNE: Thankyou. How long will the letter take?

CLERK: Three days.

ANNE: I want to send postcards to Spain, Belgium and Poland.

CLERK: It's a ten pence for a postcard to anywhere in Europe.

ANNE: Three ten pence stamps, please.

CLERK: Here you are.

... Where are you sending that parcel?

ANNE: To London.

 

CLERK: Put it on the scales, please.

... That's eighty-five pence.
Twelve and thirty and eighty-five...That's one pound, twenty-seven pence altogether.