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Re:The tech that the US Post Office gave us by amelius on Saturday July 19, 2025 @07:35PM (#44620496)
> Today, the USPS’s OCR technology can read handwritten mail at nearly 98 percent accuracy

That seems quite low compared to other uses of AI. Imagine a self driving car taking a decision every second with 98 percent accuracy. After a minute of driving there would be a 70% probability of making at least one bad decision.

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Re:The tech that the US Post Office gave us by toast0 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @08:01PM (#44620644)
Yeah, but my penmanship is awful, and I'm not alone.

However, machine printed addresses are the norm, and address barcodes for large mailers are very common. Manual assistance on 2% of handwritten mail isn't that much manual assistance.

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