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Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas, a post office spokesman said last night. We(...)
Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas, a post office spokesman said last night. We(...)

Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas, a post office spokesman said last night. We(...)

Date2/19/1974
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  • Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas; a post office spokesman said last night. We have 27 tractor-trailer vans loaded with mail; he said. There is a big build-up of thousands of bags; containing millions of pieces of mail. Backing was blamed on a work slowdown. Here; Victor Toth moves parcels in the sorting area.
  • Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas, a post office spokesman said last night. We(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas; a post office spokesman said last night. We have 27 tractor-trailer vans loaded with mail; he said. There is a big build-up of thousands of bags; containing millions of pieces of mail. Backing was blamed on a work slowdown. Here; Victor Toth moves parcels in the sorting area.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011127F
Metro Christmas mail's a record, Metro Post offices are handling a record amount of Christmas mail, postal authorities said
Metro Christmas mail's a record, Metro Post offices are handling a record amount of Christmas mail, postal authorities said
Spremo, Boris
12/12/1973
Back to work, sorters in the main post office start clearing the mountain of mail built up since 281 drivers walked out Thursday to protest delay in c(...)
Back to work, sorters in the main post office start clearing the mountain of mail built up since 281 drivers walked out Thursday to protest delay in c(...)
Norris, Dave
11/19/1972
Reading other people's mail is all in the day's work for Marion Hubel, one of 21 persons in the Undeliverable Mail office at the Front Street Post Off(...)
Reading other people's mail is all in the day's work for Marion Hubel, one of 21 persons in the Undeliverable Mail office at the Front Street Post Off(...)
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
10/22/1974
Backlog of mail that has piled up during the various rotating mail strikes in the Metro area is processed by postal workers at the main office in Toro(...)
Backlog of mail that has piled up during the various rotating mail strikes in the Metro area is processed by postal workers at the main office in Toro(...)
Ross, Fred
6/29/1970
Christmas greetings come through them, The extra help hired for the Christmas rush - and there were long line-ups for the job-sort through the torrent(...)
Christmas greetings come through them, The extra help hired for the Christmas rush - and there were long line-ups for the job-sort through the torrent(...)
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
12/16/1970
Old methods such as the letter sorting used by Jo Campbell will not be around much longer as the Post Office prepares semi-automated factories that wi(...)
Old methods such as the letter sorting used by Jo Campbell will not be around much longer as the Post Office prepares semi-automated factories that wi(...)
Combs, Erin
9/4/1974
Letters and Christmas cards are sorted along the sides of a conveyor belt
Letters and Christmas cards are sorted along the sides of a conveyor belt
Spremo, Boris
12/12/1973
Catching the code: The nimble fingers of Marie Bright remove the mail from a code-reading machine after the letters have been transported via high-speed conveyor belts from the sorting office
Catching the code: The nimble fingers of Marie Bright remove the mail from a code-reading machine after the letters have been transported via high-speed conveyor belts from the sorting office
Toronto Star (Firm)
9/27/1977
The backlog of mail piled up in Terminal A during the 11-day postal strike began to move today after maintenance workers lifted their picket lines. So(...)
The backlog of mail piled up in Terminal A during the 11-day postal strike began to move today after maintenance workers lifted their picket lines. So(...)
Spremo, Boris
2/28/1975
Sorting the mail, above, can be speeded up if public helps, postal worker says in letter below
Sorting the mail, above, can be speeded up if public helps, postal worker says in letter below
Bezant, Graham
12/14/1976
Postal-coded letters, along with those without the code, are popped into the correct pigeon-holes in the mail-sorting racks yesterday in Toronto's dow(...)
Postal-coded letters, along with those without the code, are popped into the correct pigeon-holes in the mail-sorting racks yesterday in Toronto's dow(...)
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
3/20/1975
Letters addressed to a name and a city only must be hand sorted, postal worker points out below
Letters addressed to a name and a city only must be hand sorted, postal worker points out below
Combs, Erin
9/18/1974