Video: USPS Still Needs Postal Clerks To Read Poor Handwriting On Letters

From Wall Street Journal – “A man in Emden, Mo., recently mailed a letter that he had addressed, in a scribble, to somebody in “Shelhjreille, Mo.” That’s the way his handwriting made it look, anyhow. When the computers that sort mail for the U.S. Postal Service can’t read your handwriting, where does your letter go next? WSJ’s Barry Newman reports from the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The letter was delivered the next day. Gary Oliver, a postal clerk 1,200 miles away, got it there. Mr. Oliver works in the Salt Lake City “Remote Encoding Center” of the U.S. Postal Serviceā€”a room where hundreds of clerks sit in silence, day and night, staring at America’s worst-addressed envelopes.” Wall Street Journal

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