How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting (video)

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)

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USPS: Major computer upgrade headed to plants

The Postal Service is rolling out a major computer system upgrade at mail processing plants across the United States. Under the Results Server Modernization program, a single, centralized computer system will replace multiple legacy servers at all international service centers, network distribution centers, processing and distribution centers, and several annexes. “The same hardware has been…

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