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How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting

Tom Scott
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At the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, keyers process 1.2 billion images of mail every year. It's a more difficult job than I thought. Edited by Michelle Martin:    / @onthecrux   Thanks to Zack from JerryRigEverything for being the camera op:    / jerryrigeverything   🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/    / lateralcast   ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS:    / tomscottplus   👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES:    / techdif   ...more
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How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
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2022Aug 8
At the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, keyers process 1.2 billion images of mail every year. It's a more difficult job than I thought. Edited by Michelle Martin:    / @onthecrux   Thanks to Zack from JerryRigEverything for being the camera op:    / jerryrigeverything   🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/    / lateralcast   ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS:    / tomscottplus   👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES:    / techdif  

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Tom Scott

6.58M subscribers