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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(...)
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(...)

Date11/19/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 contract negotiations. Postal crews have begun unsealing mail boxes but authorities have asked the public to mail only essential letters until the backlog is cleared. Union leaders are angry over injunction; granted Saturday without them being present.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0011136F
      Moving a mountain of mail started today as Toronto's 1,400 postmen and 2,200 sorters came back to work after a six-day walkout. Toronto Post Office is(...)
      Moving a mountain of mail started today as Toronto's 1,400 postmen and 2,200 sorters came back to work after a six-day walkout. Toronto Post Office is(...)
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      7/30/1965
      Mail sorters from the city delivery building picket the building today in a walkout protesting long delays in negotiations for a contract. [Incomplete]
      Mail sorters from the city delivery building picket the building today in a walkout protesting long delays in negotiations for a contract. [Incomplete]
      Geo, Mario
      12/8/1972
      Clerks painstakingly sort through the unmachineable mail, the parcels and letters too bulky for the automatic sorters
      Clerks painstakingly sort through the unmachineable mail, the parcels and letters too bulky for the automatic sorters
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/27/1977
      Overflowing the Concert Hall in the Royal York Hotel, sorters and other members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers yesterday resoundingly voted a(...)
      Overflowing the Concert Hall in the Royal York Hotel, sorters and other members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers yesterday resoundingly voted a(...)
      Goode, Jeff
      2/27/1975
      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 Piles Up at the Post office and this mail truck driver looks as glum as the millions of Canadians now facing no mail, air travel problems and tie(...)
      Mail Piles Up at the Post office and this mail truck driver looks as glum as the millions of Canadians now facing no mail, air travel problems and tie(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      4/18/1974
      Mail fight: Walter Stewart, 82, checks the mailbox near his Tottenham-area home for news on his dispute with Canada Post over a delay in delivering documents he sent by registered mail
      Mail fight: Walter Stewart, 82, checks the mailbox near his Tottenham-area home for news on his dispute with Canada Post over a delay in delivering documents he sent by registered mail
      Slaughter, Mike
      1/15/1987
      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
      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
      Help back: Gravel truck drivers are stopped by OPP officers yesterday as they try to break into the Legislature to protest everything from high diesel fuel taxes to a new law licensing brokers
      Help back: Gravel truck drivers are stopped by OPP officers yesterday as they try to break into the Legislature to protest everything from high diesel fuel taxes to a new law licensing brokers
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      3/10/1992
      The Mail Boxes Are Sealed, Letter boxes were sealed at the main post office terminal at Bay and Front Sts
      The Mail Boxes Are Sealed, Letter boxes were sealed at the main post office terminal at Bay and Front Sts
      Goode, Jeff
      1/19/1973
      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