April 23, 2024 The USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City — the first such center in use and the last one still standing — celebrated 30 years of service last week. The center receives digital images of letters and packages with illegible addresses from other postal facilities around the country. More than 730…
August 8, 2022 At the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, keyers process 1.2 billion images of mail every year. Source: Tom Scott / YouTube Related: Salt Lake USPS facility the last in US to decode poorly penned mailing addresses (2018)
Background The U.S. Postal Service has over 270 mail processing centers across the nation with more than 6,600 pieces of mail processing equipment that capture mailpiece images. The mail processing equipment maintains these images for between 4 seconds and 120 days depending on the type of processing equipment. These images enable the tracking of mailpieces…
Since the world has not yet invented a robot capable of reading crappy handwriting, a team of the finest postal workers in the United States toils day and night in an effort to deliver the most indecipherable of mail. Shifts last eight hours, and employees are trained to take ten seconds or less with each…
UPDATED — There’s another twist on the possible Department for Children and Families lease at 2601 S. Oliver, which has been a remote encoding center for the U.S. Postal Service. The postal service is winding down those operations – its lease expires in September 2015 – but now it’s planning a call center for the…
