How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting

You Tube Video ^ | 3/31/2023 | Tom Scott

[Pol-92064]

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.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Great timing. I just got back from the PO to mail a small package.
My printer is out so I had to handwrite the address.
Good luck to those folks at that center.

[DJ Frisat]

The DVDs I sold/sell are niche-market (classic horror movie host television program) that I’ve authored with the authorization and cooperation of the creator/IP rights holder. They’re brand-new, in shrink wrap, and usually sold one at a time. Packed in a bubble wrap mailer. From Michigan to Louisiana, where most of my shipments go, takes about 3 business days. Not bad!

Works great with pre-paid postage labels from Pirate Ship. USPS Tracking, and insurance included in the label price.

In your case, I would think USPS Media Mail would be a cost-effective option, regardless of the number of discs you sell.

[dagunk]

I have had to deal with foreign postal systems.

We have it good here. They’re not perfect but they are pretty damn good.

[albie]

They just throw it the trash where I live

[null and void]

A second problem is the incredibly favorable postage rates given to items from China. These low prices are left from when China was literally a starving country. Congress needs to end this completely unfair policy.
↑↑↑THIS!!!!!↑↑↑

Or President Trump needs to praise Chyna for no longer being a starving country and reward them by treating them like a big boy and ending the free mail policy...

[mom aka the evil dictator]

The problem is not so much that the US Postal Service gives these favorable rates to China, so much as the UPU (Universal Postal Union) decrees it. We are a member of the UPU and it heavily (like every other damn international organization) relies on the US to cover the rest of the world with subsidies.

[null and void]

So? He who eats my bread sings my song.

An EO freezing payments to UPU ‘until Chyna is recognized as a world power no longer eligible for a free ride’ would do what to the UPU’s ‘tude?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

One of my failures as I’ve been getting older is in handwriting, especially since nowadays, most of my “writing” is done with a computer keyboard.

My printing used to be as neat as a pin, and I had great cursive. Nowadays, I’m lucky if I can write a check without any mistakes, and my signature is more scribbly than before. And my print would probably put me in good company with doctors writing prescriptions.

[mom aka the evil dictator]

So we haven’t had a President with any guts to take on the Establishment until now. China’s postal rates fall farther down the list for me than booting the illegals and reining in the waste, fraud and abuse. We should have a new PostMaster General in the next few months, with any luck he will tell the UPU to kick rocks.

The Democrats and the traitor Republicans need to be hamstrung so President Trump can deal with the major issues and then move onto the rest of the list. I wish we’d leave all the international groups we are in and allow them to collapse.