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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(...)

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(...)

Date9/9/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 encoders are largely to be replaced by optical character readers; machines which can read printed characters directly. Penalties for some kinds of uncoded mail begin next month.
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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_0011116F
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
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
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 (...)
12/4/1975
One of the 17 women working in the Undeliverable Mail Office, Violet Toth tries to track down destination of misguided letters on her desk. Last year,(...)
One of the 17 women working in the Undeliverable Mail Office, Violet Toth tries to track down destination of misguided letters on her desk. Last year,(...)
12/21/1977
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
Letters addressed to a name and a city only must be hand sorted, postal worker points out below
Letters addressed to a name and a city only must be hand sorted, postal worker points out below
9/18/1974
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
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(...)
8/9/1968
Automation at Gateway postal terminal was supposed to lick all the postal delays throughout Metro, Alderman Ying Hope says in letter below. However, h(...)
Automation at Gateway postal terminal was supposed to lick all the postal delays throughout Metro, Alderman Ying Hope says in letter below. However, h(...)
10/15/1977
Crossing the picket lines of inside workers, letter-carriers leave the main postal station on Bay St
Crossing the picket lines of inside workers, letter-carriers leave the main postal station on Bay St
4/20/1974
Susette Godin, one of 4 woman letter carriers working out of Postal Station A, enjoys walking and fresh air
Susette Godin, one of 4 woman letter carriers working out of Postal Station A, enjoys walking and fresh air
8/8/1975