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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

Letters and Christmas cards are sorted along the sides of a conveyor belt

Date12/12/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Letters and Christmas cards are sorted along the sides of a conveyor belt
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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_0011133F
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
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
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
Part of rear guard of almost 5,000 inside workers who sorted and sifted 7
Part of rear guard of almost 5,000 inside workers who sorted and sifted 7
3/10/1977
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
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
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(...)
2/19/1974
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
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
am Westergard engineers a big load of sorted parcels from out of town through the city yard of the post office yesterday.[Incomplete]
am Westergard engineers a big load of sorted parcels from out of town through the city yard of the post office yesterday.[Incomplete]
12/12/1973
Toronto P.O. employee's annual greeting to their friends everywhere
Toronto P.O. employee's annual greeting to their friends everywhere
1885
To hell with public and other statements made by postal union leader Joe Davidson often make him sound contemptuous
To hell with public and other statements made by postal union leader Joe Davidson often make him sound contemptuous
n.d.