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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(...)

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(...)

Date7/30/1965
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 giving priority to old age pension; family allowances; veterans' and other government welfare cheques. Next comes first class mail; then papers and magazines. But most welcome of all was the postman himself; trudging up the street; sack over his shoulder. He got a royal welcome-even when first post was just bills.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017173F
The backlog of mail that piled up last week and yesterday when Toronto postmen refused to work overtime on the weekend, began moving today as the men (...)
The backlog of mail that piled up last week and yesterday when Toronto postmen refused to work overtime on the weekend, began moving today as the men (...)
5/19/1970
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(...)
7/24/1965
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(...)
11/19/1972
In wildcat walkout in which about 300 Metro postmen left their jobs today to join a wave of similar walkouts in other Ontario areas, letter carriers p(...)
In wildcat walkout in which about 300 Metro postmen left their jobs today to join a wave of similar walkouts in other Ontario areas, letter carriers p(...)
11/15/1971
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(...)
2/27/1975
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]
12/8/1972
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
7/18/1968
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
11/14/1975
Shouts of jubilation - sure to be echoed by most of Metro's mail-less residents - fill te CNE's Coliseum (top) as Toronto postmen learn their vote tod(...)
Shouts of jubilation - sure to be echoed by most of Metro's mail-less residents - fill te CNE's Coliseum (top) as Toronto postmen learn their vote tod(...)
7/29/1965
During a walkout by 400 postal workers at the main post office last night, vice-president John Potts of the Toronto Union of Postal Workers appeals fo(...)
During a walkout by 400 postal workers at the main post office last night, vice-president John Potts of the Toronto Union of Postal Workers appeals fo(...)
11/9/1972
Toronto parcels piling up. Hundreds of bags of mail and parcel post pile up in courtyard of Toronto post office's city delivery building. At top left,(...)
Toronto parcels piling up. Hundreds of bags of mail and parcel post pile up in courtyard of Toronto post office's city delivery building. At top left,(...)
8/30/1966
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(...)
11/19/1975