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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

Letters addressed to a name and a city only must be hand sorted, postal worker points out below

Date9/18/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Letters addressed to a name and a city only must be hand sorted; postal worker points out below. Some people can't even spell the destination well enough to be reasonably recognizable; he says.
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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_0011125F
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Letters and Christmas cards are sorted along the sides of a conveyor belt
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n.d.
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am Westergard engineers a big load of sorted parcels from out of town through the city yard of the post office yesterday.[Incomplete]
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