salt Lake City – Neither snow, rain, heat or night sadness can stop the mail. But the poor palace? it’s a challenge.
When there is no address, the mail distribution centers across the country capture images of hard-to-read addresses and electronically send them to the US Postal Service Remote Encoding Center, or REC at Salt Lake City, Utah.
Senior USPS manager Steve Hilton at the distribution center in Utah in Salt Lake City told CBS News, “These are about three million letters that pass through our machines every day.”
On an average day, Hilton says, about 75,000 mails of those three million mails are to be rebuilt by the Center as their address is very difficult to understand before being sent to REC.
Ryan Bullock, the operating manager of REC, said, “In the last year, we processed approximately one billion mail mail at the center alone.”
Bullock chicken oversees hundreds of experts in scratches, known as data conversion operators or keyers. They work around the clock every day of the year. They are also not closed for holidays.
“Every hour, someone is going to average around 900 pieces,” Bullock said.
One of those keyers is Amy Hegley, who has been reducing the address over 20 years, reviewing the images of letters to quickly determine its destinations. She jokes that she has improved her doctor’s handwriting.
If a male cannot decode the address from the image, the USPS has only one option: inspection with one hand.
“In the plant, someone in the plant will have to get that piece of physically mail and look at it.”
This requires a postal worker to manually check the address as a final-khai attempt to read his desired destination.
All in the hope that it will not be returned to the sender, unknown address.
