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Mail strike jams bus express office, Long line-ups developed yesterday at the Colonial Coach-Gray Coach parcel station as people sent out envelopes an(...)
Mail strike jams bus express office, Long line-ups developed yesterday at the Colonial Coach-Gray Coach parcel station as people sent out envelopes an(...)

Mail strike jams bus express office, Long line-ups developed yesterday at the Colonial Coach-Gray Coach parcel station as people sent out envelopes an(...)

Date10/22/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mail strike jams bus express office; Long line-ups developed yesterday at the Colonial Coach-Gray Coach parcel station as people sent out envelopes and packages they were unable to mail. Courier services in and around Metro were braced for brisk business making deliveries during the postal strike; they were busy answering telephone inquiries about rates. Some said they would add extra cars and drivers to meet the rush.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017217F
Getting their mail away despite the postal strike, people line up patiently in front of express window at bus terminal on Bay St., some of them using (...)
Getting their mail away despite the postal strike, people line up patiently in front of express window at bus terminal on Bay St., some of them using (...)
7/24/1968
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
Hours of idling in the miles of traffic jams generated by Metro's transit strike inevitably bring a few stalled engines
Hours of idling in the miles of traffic jams generated by Metro's transit strike inevitably bring a few stalled engines
9/12/1978
Air strike turned travel into chaotic line-ups at bus terminals and at U
Air strike turned travel into chaotic line-ups at bus terminals and at U
8/8/1977
Parcels Cram Bay st. bus terminal. Senders seek alternative to trains since strike
Parcels Cram Bay st. bus terminal. Senders seek alternative to trains since strike
8/31/1966
Direct mail: Thousands spent hours yesterday waiting in line to collect family and disability benefit cheques that aren't being sent in the mail due to the postal dispute
Direct mail: Thousands spent hours yesterday waiting in line to collect family and disability benefit cheques that aren't being sent in the mail due to the postal dispute
6/29/1987
Pickets pass Union Station on way to express office
Pickets pass Union Station on way to express office
2/26/1966
Monumental jam-ups - in case any downtown driver missed one - were the order of the day as an unprepared Metro faced the first day of the transit stri(...)
Monumental jam-ups - in case any downtown driver missed one - were the order of the day as an unprepared Metro faced the first day of the transit stri(...)
9/11/1978
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
Stored MAIL is moved in the yard of the post office Terminal A and city delivery building yesterday during the 36-hour truce in the mail strike, now i(...)
Stored MAIL is moved in the yard of the post office Terminal A and city delivery building yesterday during the 36-hour truce in the mail strike, now i(...)
2/27/1975
Worth The Wait? A bored commuter, stranded by the TTC strike, joins the line of people waiting yesterday at Union Station for GO trains to take them home
Worth The Wait? A bored commuter, stranded by the TTC strike, joins the line of people waiting yesterday at Union Station for GO trains to take them home
9/12/1991
Striking letter carriers, above, picket outside postal station during recent mail strike
Striking letter carriers, above, picket outside postal station during recent mail strike
9/22/1978