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Old 07-10-2019, 07:07 PM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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LOL That work is done by sorting machines.
Over 5 million pieces of mail are kicked out of that sorter every day for various reasons with cursive being one of them. A picture is sent to the remote encoding center for them to decipher.
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Old 07-11-2019, 11:20 AM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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Over 5 million pieces of mail are kicked out of that sorter every day for various reasons with cursive being one of them. A picture is sent to the remote encoding center for them to decipher.
I would love to work in the remote decoding center and decipher the writing. It would make me feel so smart!
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Old 07-11-2019, 05:07 PM
 
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Yep, it's all OCR based these days but it's far from perfect. Full manual service in a PO tandem is virtually unheard of these days. Even in tiny little far-flung USPS offices out in the sticks the bulk of the job is automated though they still require human operators to tend the equipment and its failures.
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Old 07-17-2019, 02:58 AM
 
Location: Cebu, Philippines
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Raising children. Grandma will do it.
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Old 07-17-2019, 04:26 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Raising children. Grandma will do it.
New Grandma's (and Grandpa's) pretty soon will be as dumb as they are.
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Old 07-17-2019, 11:07 AM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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Yep, it's all OCR based these days but it's far from perfect. Full manual service in a PO tandem is virtually unheard of these days. Even in tiny little far-flung USPS offices out in the sticks the bulk of the job is automated though they still require human operators to tend the equipment and its failures.
Well there are still the mail persons (can't call them mailMAN these days) who have to be able to read the envelope when they deliver.

I was just passing on what my mail lady told me one day. She just told me to print my envelopes and then I'd not run into any problems with delivery.
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