I suppose I find this interesting because it is rare that I mail an actual piece of mail and when I do, every time, I wonder how it gets to where it's going considering my handwriting isn't stellar which means that, playing the odds (reality) game, there are waaaaaaay worse examples of penmanship out there. To this day, I just assumed it was a completely human routing system (which a big part of it actually is) probably because I used to have this same concern when I mailed a letter as a kid...when technology didn't exist as it does today.
- Processing plant where 36,000 letters are scanned per hour.
- Images of indecipherable letters are sent to an encoding center ("...a big windowless room") where people try to de-code unrecognizable addresses - This is what these people do all day.
- Mail that these poor souls can't decipher is then routed to the 'Peak and Poke Clerk' (sweet title) who is the last line of defense against the dreaded:
Whoa.
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