NCERT Solutions for Class 4th The World Around Us Chapter 2 On Our Way Back Home — Write

This answer comes from your own home, so find it out first.

1. Ask your parents or grandparents if they have ever posted a letter or a parcel.
2. Ask what was inside and who it was for.
3. Look for old letters, envelopes, stamps or parcel receipts kept in the house.
4. Write your answer in two or three sentences.

A good answer tells four things: who sent it, what was sent, when it was sent, and how it came.

The post office carries our words and our things from one place to another.

• The postman collects the letters we drop in the postbox.
• He takes them to the post office.
• There the letters are sorted according to regions.
• Then they are sent to their destinations.
• The post office also sends parcels, important documents and money by money order.

This is how Dada ji stayed in touch with his brother. His brother was studying in a different city, so Dada ji wrote him letters and dropped them into a postbox.