If you’ve ever wondered how the Postal Service can decipher illegible handwriting, the answer is at the USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, UT. Each of the 1,500 postal employees at the Center examines 7,000 images every day to determine where the indecipherable mail should be delivered. The majority of letters received by the Postal Service can be sorted electronically, but the one percent that can’t be detected is given to the “detectives” in Utah. The Center’s postal employees were featured on the NBC show “Today” during the week of July 6, 2015.

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