Given the question: Given the question "Who paid for the mail delivery before the appearance of postage stamps?" and the answer "Either the sender or the receiver of a letter.", write a conversation that might have happened.
The answer is:
W: When did you become interested in collecting stamps?M: Oh, when I was about ten years old. It's an exciting hobby. You know, the first postage stamps were issued in Britain in 1840.W: Really? I didn't know that. I did know that the charge for mail delivery before the appearance of postage stamps was paid by either the sender or the receiner. How much was the usual charge?M: Oh, about ten cents for a short distance. But post of rices were losing money with that system. Rowland Hill an Englishman, suggested using postage stamps. Here's a picture of the first two stamps issued.W: They both bear a picture of Queen Victoria.