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Carrying 3-week-old letters, but being greeted like a long-lost friend by everyone on his route, Orvin Millett, postman, was back on the job yesterday(...)
Carrying 3-week-old letters, but being greeted like a long-lost friend by everyone on his route, Orvin Millett, postman, was back on the job yesterday(...)

Carrying 3-week-old letters, but being greeted like a long-lost friend by everyone on his route, Orvin Millett, postman, was back on the job yesterday(...)

Date8/9/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: Carrying 3-week-old letters, but being greeted like a long-lost friend by everyone on his route, Orvin Millett, postman, was back on the job yesterday. Postal settlement gives him a boost of $8 a week in pay immediately.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0028241F
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