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Mail Piles Up at the Post office and this mail truck driver looks as glum as the millions of Canadians now facing no mail, air travel problems and tie(...)
Mail Piles Up at the Post office and this mail truck driver looks as glum as the millions of Canadians now facing no mail, air travel problems and tie(...)

Mail Piles Up at the Post office and this mail truck driver looks as glum as the millions of Canadians now facing no mail, air travel problems and tie(...)

Date4/18/1974
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  • Mail Piles Up at the Post office and this mail truck driver looks as glum as the millions of Canadians now facing no mail, air travel problems and tie(...)
  • Mail Piles Up at the Post office and this mail truck driver looks as glum as the millions of Canadians now facing no mail; air travel problems and tie-ups in St. Lawrence shipping. Job security; wage parity are among issues negotiators must settle in strikes of letter sorters; airport firefighters; river pilots.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mail Piles Up at the Post office and this mail truck driver looks as glum as the millions of Canadians now facing no mail; air travel problems and tie-ups in St. Lawrence shipping. Job security; wage parity are among issues negotiators must settle in strikes of letter sorters; airport firefighters; river pilots.
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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
Trucks Blocked: Postal pickets block the lane from the Toronto Island ferry docks yesterday, obstructing trucks carrying mail
Trucks Blocked: Postal pickets block the lane from the Toronto Island ferry docks yesterday, obstructing trucks carrying mail
Beaty, Keith
8/29/1991
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
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
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(...)
Philp, Barry
7/24/1965
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
On the line: Striking postal clerks, above, are condemned by readers, in letters at left and below, one of whom argues that we have our rights, too, and one of them is to receive our mail
On the line: Striking postal clerks, above, are condemned by readers, in letters at left and below, one of whom argues that we have our rights, too, and one of them is to receive our mail
Russell, Jim
7/8/1981
The backlog of mail that piled up last week and yesterday when Toronto postmen refused to work overtime on the weekend, began moving today as the men (...)
The backlog of mail that piled up last week and yesterday when Toronto postmen refused to work overtime on the weekend, began moving today as the men (...)
Lennon, Frank
5/19/1970
Shouts of jubilation - sure to be echoed by most of Metro's mail-less residents - fill te CNE's Coliseum (top) as Toronto postmen learn their vote tod(...)
Shouts of jubilation - sure to be echoed by most of Metro's mail-less residents - fill te CNE's Coliseum (top) as Toronto postmen learn their vote tod(...)
Grant, Frank
7/29/1965
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
Out with the mail
Out with the mail
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
7/30/1965
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