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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

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

Date6/29/1987
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  • 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
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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.
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Their cupboards are bare and several hundred striking civic workers line up at tables at the City Hall foyer to collect pay cheques for the six days t(...)
Their cupboards are bare and several hundred striking civic workers line up at tables at the City Hall foyer to collect pay cheques for the six days t(...)
Goode, Jeff
4/20/1972
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
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
Teskey, Frank
7/18/1968
Mail strike jams bus express office, Long line-ups developed yesterday at the Colonial Coach-Gray Coach parcel station as people sent out envelopes an(...)
Mail strike jams bus express office, Long line-ups developed yesterday at the Colonial Coach-Gray Coach parcel station as people sent out envelopes an(...)
Bull, Ron
10/22/1975
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
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
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
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
Postal workers picket, above, during recent mail disruption
Postal workers picket, above, during recent mail disruption
Dutton, Don
12/12/1977
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
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