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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(...)

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(...)

Date3/20/1975
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  • 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 downtown postal terminal. The sorters' union had called for a one-day boycott of all letters bearing the postal code; part of its fight to protect its 17;600 members from automation; but postal officials say the boycott was a flop across Canada. I think it's a lost cause; sorter Jean Graziano said. Automation's going to come.
  • 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(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 downtown postal terminal. The sorters' union had called for a one-day boycott of all letters bearing the postal code; part of its fight to protect its 17;600 members from automation; but postal officials say the boycott was a flop across Canada. I think it's a lost cause; sorter Jean Graziano said. Automation's going to come.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011129F
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
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Toronto Star (Firm)
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Ross, Fred
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Spremo, Boris
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Combs, Erin
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Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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Combs, Erin
9/18/1974
To hell with public and other statements made by postal union leader Joe Davidson often make him sound contemptuous
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Canadian Union of Postal Workers
n.d.
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(...)
Lennon, Frank
2/19/1974
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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
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Davidson, Joe
Davidson, Joe
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
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