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Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices
Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices

Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices

Date10/23/1975
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  • Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices
  • Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices. Reader; at left; call the inside workers greedy and selfish while another says that the country is suffering because of the demands of a few.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mail is piled up unsorted in Canadian post offices. Reader; at left; call the inside workers greedy and selfish while another says that the country is suffering because of the demands of a few.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017210F
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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,(...)
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      Geo, Mario
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Lennon, Frank
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      National War Savings Committee
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