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Getting the mail
Getting the mail

Getting the mail

Date8/30/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Getting the mail: Pirosa Ersek; 74; is helped by two other seniors as she arrives at a temporary postal station on Queen St. E. to pick up her pension cheque today.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017328F
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
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(...)
4/18/1974
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
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
Out with the mail
Out with the mail
7/30/1965
The mail queues start
The mail queues start
7/23/1965
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(...)
7/30/1965
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
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
1/19/1973
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
Votes counted at Royal York hotel to decide if inside postal workers would strike, The ballot count was 906 in favor of a strike and 286 opposed. Metro mail is tied up completely
Votes counted at Royal York hotel to decide if inside postal workers would strike, The ballot count was 906 in favor of a strike and 286 opposed. Metro mail is tied up completely
7/26/1965