Have you ever wondered what happens to those indecipherable letters that look suspiciously like a doctors handwriting? The USPS actually has a special unit in the Utah capital who work around the clock and even holidays decoding illegible addresses. The unit of experts has hundreds of keyers/data conversion operators who routinely go through around 900 pieces an hour. Around 3 million letters go through the reading machines on a typical day in the US, out of those 3 million about 75,000 of those need to be reexamined. If those efforts still fail the mail will be returned to sender. I imagine this will be an even bigger problem as we rely more on computers and less on our motor skills.
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