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2,000,000 a day for mail mountain, As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day, undelivered mail is piling up at post offices a(...)
2,000,000 a day for mail mountain, As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day, undelivered mail is piling up at post offices a(...)

2,000,000 a day for mail mountain, As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day, undelivered mail is piling up at post offices a(...)

Date7/24/1965
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  • 2,000,000 a day for mail mountain, As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day, undelivered mail is piling up at post offices a(...)
  • 2;000;000 a day for mail mountain; As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day; undelivered mail is piling up at post offices at the rate of 2;000;000 pieces a day; and strike expands.
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Original Toronto Star caption: 2;000;000 a day for mail mountain; As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day; undelivered mail is piling up at post offices at the rate of 2;000;000 pieces a day; and strike expands.
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Toronto parcels piling up. Hundreds of bags of mail and parcel post pile up in courtyard of Toronto post office's city delivery building. At top left,(...)
Toronto parcels piling up. Hundreds of bags of mail and parcel post pile up in courtyard of Toronto post office's city delivery building. At top left,(...)
Darrell, Dick
8/30/1966
In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
Spremo, Boris
11/19/1975
Moving a mountain of mail started today as Toronto's 1,400 postmen and 2,200 sorters came back to work after a six-day walkout. Toronto Post Office is(...)
Moving a mountain of mail started today as Toronto's 1,400 postmen and 2,200 sorters came back to work after a six-day walkout. Toronto Post Office is(...)
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
7/30/1965
Votes counted at Royal York hotel to decide if inside postal workers would strike, The ballot count was 906 in favor of a strike and 286 opposed. Metro mail is tied up completely
Votes counted at Royal York hotel to decide if inside postal workers would strike, The ballot count was 906 in favor of a strike and 286 opposed. Metro mail is tied up completely
Toronto Star (Firm)
7/26/1965
Determined Strikers, Public service employees walk the picket line yesterday at Terminal 3 at Pearson International Airport. Today the strike enters its eighty day
Determined Strikers, Public service employees walk the picket line yesterday at Terminal 3 at Pearson International Airport. Today the strike enters its eighty day
Stawicki, Andrew
9/15/1991
Back sorting the mail, Jean Hill works with other postal employees who crossed the picket line at Don Mills post office
Back sorting the mail, Jean Hill works with other postal employees who crossed the picket line at Don Mills post office
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
11/14/1975
Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices
Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices
Spremo, Boris
10/23/1975
Getting their mail away despite the postal strike, people line up patiently in front of express window at bus terminal on Bay St., some of them using (...)
Getting their mail away despite the postal strike, people line up patiently in front of express window at bus terminal on Bay St., some of them using (...)
Spremo, Boris
7/24/1968
Striking letter carriers, above, picket outside postal station during recent mail strike
Striking letter carriers, above, picket outside postal station during recent mail strike
Cooper, David
9/22/1978
Stored MAIL is moved in the yard of the post office Terminal A and city delivery building yesterday during the 36-hour truce in the mail strike, now i(...)
Stored MAIL is moved in the yard of the post office Terminal A and city delivery building yesterday during the 36-hour truce in the mail strike, now i(...)
Spremo, Boris
2/27/1975
Direct mail: Thousands spent hours yesterday waiting in line to collect family and disability benefit cheques that aren't being sent in the mail due to the postal dispute
Direct mail: Thousands spent hours yesterday waiting in line to collect family and disability benefit cheques that aren't being sent in the mail due to the postal dispute
Combs, Erin
6/29/1987
First Strike by north york municpal employees, which began yesterday, is resulting in garbage piling up at the rate of 700 tons a day in backyards and(...)
First Strike by north york municpal employees, which began yesterday, is resulting in garbage piling up at the rate of 700 tons a day in backyards and(...)
Beaty, Keith
5/31/1976