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Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office (...)
Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office (...)

Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office (...)

Date12/4/1975
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  • Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office (...)
  • Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office has a $1 billion plan to make Canada's postal service the most efficient in world but; says one official; it may be a year before the service recovers from the 6-week mail strike.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office has a $1 billion plan to make Canada's postal service the most efficient in world but; says one official; it may be a year before the service recovers from the 6-week mail strike.
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