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UNITED STATES. NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

1981-0144

Film

1 of 1

1955

Universal Pictures

At Peterborough, Ontario the Canadian Post Office moves into the age of automation and speedy mail delivery with its new automated mail sorter. Included: extreme long shot of a crowd in front of a post office building; medium shot of a ribbon cutting ceremony with Minister of Public Works Robert Winter cutting the ribbon; crowd entering the post office; medium shot of a woman and Robert Winter at a postal wicket; shot of the postal processing area; a man sorting the mail; a worker sitting at the sorting machine; a letter dropping into a slot; close-up of the keyboard on the letter sorting machine; a man inspecting the equipment; a row of operators at the sorting keyboards; the sorting bins; a man taking mail from a slot and placing it on a bundling machine; letters being wrapped in small bundles and placed in a bin; close-up of postal worker throwing mail into mailbags; close-up of a mailbag with lettering that reads "1955 Canada PO". <98s>

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Vol. 28~Rel. 689

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