answer: #Person2# helps #Person1# send the books as 'Printed Matter' to Shanghai and charges #Person1# ten dollars.
documents: #Person1#: Would you tell me how I should send this parcel to Shanghai, China? It contains only books.
  #Person2#: You might send it as'Printed Matter'.
  #Person1#: I wonder if I could have it insured here?
  #Person2#: Of course. How much would you want to insure these books for?
  #Person1#: Let me see. . . I think I can have them insured for five hundred dollars.
  #Person2#: Five hundred dollars, so you pay ten dollars for the insurance, that's two percent of the total value of the article.
  #Person1#: Here's a check for ten dollars.