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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

Sorting the mail, above, can be speeded up if public helps, postal worker says in letter below

Date12/14/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sorting the mail; above; can be speeded up if public helps; postal worker says in letter below.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0011130F
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      Automatic sorting machines now in Ottawa can handle more than 26,000 pieces of mail-marked with the new postal code-in an hour. Postal officials say a(...)
      Grant, Frank
      9/15/1973
      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 (...)
      Griffin, Doug
      12/4/1975
      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
      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
      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
      Automation at Gateway postal terminal was supposed to lick all the postal delays throughout Metro, Alderman Ying Hope says in letter below. However, h(...)
      Automation at Gateway postal terminal was supposed to lick all the postal delays throughout Metro, Alderman Ying Hope says in letter below. However, h(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      10/15/1977
      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
      Gateway clash: Police officers surround and drag off a picket after a clash with Canadian Union of Postal Workers members at the Gateway sorting station in Mississauga
      Gateway clash: Police officers surround and drag off a picket after a clash with Canadian Union of Postal Workers members at the Gateway sorting station in Mississauga
      Millar, Cal
      10/13/1987
      Postal workers picket, above, during recent mail disruption
      Postal workers picket, above, during recent mail disruption
      Dutton, Don
      12/12/1977
      The view in the mirror at a postal encoder's desk shows letters waiting to be stamped with a bar-shaped code for machine sorting. The long desks of en(...)
      The view in the mirror at a postal encoder's desk shows letters waiting to be stamped with a bar-shaped code for machine sorting. The long desks of en(...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      9/9/1975
      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
      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