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Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas, a post office spokesman said last night. We(...)
Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas, a post office spokesman said last night. We(...)

Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas, a post office spokesman said last night. We(...)

Date2/19/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mounting pile of mail at the main post office in Toronto is three times as bad as Christmas-any Christmas; a post office spokesman said last night. We have 27 tractor-trailer vans loaded with mail; he said. There is a big build-up of thousands of bags; containing millions of pieces of mail. Backing was blamed on a work slowdown. Here; Victor Toth moves parcels in the sorting area.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011127F
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
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
Reading other people's mail is all in the day's work for Marion Hubel, one of 21 persons in the Undeliverable Mail office at the Front Street Post Off(...)
Reading other people's mail is all in the day's work for Marion Hubel, one of 21 persons in the Undeliverable Mail office at the Front Street Post Off(...)
10/22/1974
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
Christmas greetings come through them, The extra help hired for the Christmas rush - and there were long line-ups for the job-sort through the torrent(...)
Christmas greetings come through them, The extra help hired for the Christmas rush - and there were long line-ups for the job-sort through the torrent(...)
12/16/1970
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
Letters and Christmas cards are sorted along the sides of a conveyor belt
Letters and Christmas cards are sorted along the sides of a conveyor belt
12/12/1973
First post office Commemorated with new stamp, A replica of an 1844 Royal mail stage coach stands outside Toronto's first post office at 258 Adelaide (...)
First post office Commemorated with new stamp, A replica of an 1844 Royal mail stage coach stands outside Toronto's first post office at 258 Adelaide (...)
2/16/1987
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
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
Christmas mail hasn't piled up this year, Weather, mail-early campaign given credit
Christmas mail hasn't piled up this year, Weather, mail-early campaign given credit
12/24/1969
Post office bargaining, Why July 31 was a critical day in the mail strike/B5
Post office bargaining, Why July 31 was a critical day in the mail strike/B5
5/4/1977