How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
Tom Scott · 4 HN recommendations
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Tom Scott visits the USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, where keyers decipher mail images machines cannot read. It shows the lengths taken to decode bad handwriting.
Why HN recommends it: Recommended in address and OCR threads as a look at the last human mail-coding operation.
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