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Supporting the mail strike, This letter carriers' union is issuing cards that supporters can hang on their mailboxes, to turn away letters delivered b(...)
Supporting the mail strike, This letter carriers' union is issuing cards that supporters can hang on their mailboxes, to turn away letters delivered b(...)

Supporting the mail strike, This letter carriers' union is issuing cards that supporters can hang on their mailboxes, to turn away letters delivered b(...)

Date6/16/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Supporting the mail strike; This letter carriers' union is issuing cards that supporters can hang on their mailboxes; to turn away letters delivered by strikebreakers. A spokesman for Canada Post says any mail that is refused may be returned to the sender after 15 days.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017290F
Striking letter carriers, above, picket outside postal station during recent mail strike
Striking letter carriers, above, picket outside postal station during recent mail strike
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Two delivery truck drivers are part of the first picket line set up by the 19,000-member Letter Carriers Union at the South Central postal facility on(...)
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Angry postal workers burn their union cards after they were refused entry to a meeting of 3,000 striking Metro postal workers at Queen Elizabeth Build(...)
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