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Widely unpopular: The Toronto Home Builders' Association will co-ordinate protests by new home buyers against the introduction of the unpopular group mailboxes in new subdivisions
Widely unpopular: The Toronto Home Builders' Association will co-ordinate protests by new home buyers against the introduction of the unpopular group mailboxes in new subdivisions

Widely unpopular: The Toronto Home Builders' Association will co-ordinate protests by new home buyers against the introduction of the unpopular group mailboxes in new subdivisions

Date11/28/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Widely unpopular: The Toronto Home Builders' Association will co-ordinate protests by new home buyers against the introduction of the unpopular group mailboxes in new subdivisions.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011085F
Mailboxes causing super problems, Postman George Lumb delivers mail to this row of green Canada Post mailboxes on Westney Rd. in Ajax, which will even(...)
Mailboxes causing super problems, Postman George Lumb delivers mail to this row of green Canada Post mailboxes on Westney Rd. in Ajax, which will even(...)
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1/15/1990
Working on compromise: Resident James Douglas says volunteers would help run a new retail postal outlet that could replace the village's post office, closed last month in favor of super mailboxes.
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Stuck in the mud: It's so bad on the construction site that even backhoes are getting stuck says Mendy Finkelstein of the home builders' sales and marketing council. Builders want Ottawa to extend the deadline on $3,000 grants for new homes because of the
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Two semi-detached houses by the Georgian Group, builders of the Humberview Hills subdivision. Bolton, Ontario
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British immigrants sending postcards home from the Gander Airport, Gander, Newfoundland
British immigrants sending postcards home from the Gander Airport, Gander, Newfoundland
1947
Postie Phyllis Vanderland will finish her day's deliveries early in the afternoon and get home in time to see husband, Ted, off to his night job as glazier
Postie Phyllis Vanderland will finish her day's deliveries early in the afternoon and get home in time to see husband, Ted, off to his night job as glazier
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Yonge Street, view north from Park Home Avenue
Yonge Street, view north from Park Home Avenue
1914
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
Supporting the mail strike, This letter carriers' union is issuing cards that supporters can hang on their mailboxes, to turn away letters delivered b(...)
Supporting the mail strike, This letter carriers' union is issuing cards that supporters can hang on their mailboxes, to turn away letters delivered b(...)
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Retired rural mailman Hugh Strong leans on one of the 200 mailboxes along his old route southeast of Port Perry
Retired rural mailman Hugh Strong leans on one of the 200 mailboxes along his old route southeast of Port Perry
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