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Mail detective

Mail detective

Date11/16/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mail detective: Manager Bob Letby shows samples of the 6 million pieces of undeliverable mail that ends up at the Scarborough depot every year. He and his staff try to track down the rightful owners.
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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_0011105F
Bags of mail piled up at Terminal A during the mail holdup caused by the Public Service Alliance picket lines
Bags of mail piled up at Terminal A during the mail holdup caused by the Public Service Alliance picket lines
2/28/1975
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
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 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
The backlog of mail piled up in Terminal A during the 11-day postal strike began to move today after maintenance workers lifted their picket lines. So(...)
The backlog of mail piled up in Terminal A during the 11-day postal strike began to move today after maintenance workers lifted their picket lines. So(...)
2/28/1975
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
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
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
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
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
Copies of correspondence between the Treasury, the Post Office, and the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, from the 4th May 1860 to the 13th June 1861
Copies of correspondence between the Treasury, the Post Office, and the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, from the 4th May 1860 to the 13th June 1861
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