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Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office (...)
Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office (...)

Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office (...)

Date12/4/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Automated sorting. Post office workers sit at consols marking mail with proper postal codes before the machine directs it on its way. The post office has a $1 billion plan to make Canada's postal service the most efficient in world but; says one official; it may be a year before the service recovers from the 6-week mail strike.
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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_0011115F
Catching the code: The nimble fingers of Marie Bright remove the mail from a code-reading machine after the letters have been transported via high-speed conveyor belts from the sorting office
Catching the code: The nimble fingers of Marie Bright remove the mail from a code-reading machine after the letters have been transported via high-speed conveyor belts from the sorting office
9/27/1977
Automatic sorting machines now in Ottawa can handle more than 26,000 pieces of mail-marked with the new postal code-in an hour. Postal officials say a(...)
Automatic sorting machines now in Ottawa can handle more than 26,000 pieces of mail-marked with the new postal code-in an hour. Postal officials say a(...)
9/15/1973
Old methods such as the letter sorting used by Jo Campbell will not be around much longer as the Post Office prepares semi-automated factories that wi(...)
Old methods such as the letter sorting used by Jo Campbell will not be around much longer as the Post Office prepares semi-automated factories that wi(...)
9/4/1974
Postal-coded letters, along with those without the code, are popped into the correct pigeon-holes in the mail-sorting racks yesterday in Toronto's dow(...)
Postal-coded letters, along with those without the code, are popped into the correct pigeon-holes in the mail-sorting racks yesterday in Toronto's dow(...)
3/20/1975
Metro Christmas mail's a record, Metro Post offices are handling a record amount of Christmas mail, postal authorities said
Metro Christmas mail's a record, Metro Post offices are handling a record amount of Christmas mail, postal authorities said
12/12/1973
The view in the mirror at a postal encoder's desk shows letters waiting to be stamped with a bar-shaped code for machine sorting. The long desks of en(...)
The view in the mirror at a postal encoder's desk shows letters waiting to be stamped with a bar-shaped code for machine sorting. The long desks of en(...)
9/9/1975
Backlog of mail that has piled up during the various rotating mail strikes in the Metro area is processed by postal workers at the main office in Toro(...)
Backlog of mail that has piled up during the various rotating mail strikes in the Metro area is processed by postal workers at the main office in Toro(...)
6/29/1970
Sorting the mail, above, can be speeded up if public helps, postal worker says in letter below
Sorting the mail, above, can be speeded up if public helps, postal worker says in letter below
12/14/1976
Canada official postal guide... chief regulations of the Post office, rates of postage and other information, and alphabetical list of post offices in Canada
Canada official postal guide... chief regulations of the Post office, rates of postage and other information, and alphabetical list of post offices in Canada
1954-1966.
Canada official postal guide... chief regulations of the Post office, rates of postage and other information, and alphabetical list of post offices in Canada
Canada official postal guide... chief regulations of the Post office, rates of postage and other information, and alphabetical list of post offices in Canada
1954-1966.
Canada official postal guide... chief regulations of the Post office, rates of postage and other information, and alphabetical list of post offices in Canada
Canada official postal guide... chief regulations of the Post office, rates of postage and other information, and alphabetical list of post offices in Canada
1954-1966.
Canada official postal guide... chief regulations of the Post office, rates of postage and other information, and alphabetical list of post offices in Canada
Canada official postal guide... chief regulations of the Post office, rates of postage and other information, and alphabetical list of post offices in Canada
1954-1966.