That equipment is impressive.

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Post #435,761

by mmoffitt

8/19/20 4:22:38 PM

That equipment is impressive.

I've only ever seen it once in operation in a mid-sized city's postal center and that was decades ago. I was working in the publishing business back then and was familiar with PC based OCR solutions which were in their infancy. I distinctly remember how awe struck I was after seeing the accuracy and speed of those machines in operation. If you were involved in the development of that stuff, my hat's off to you.

bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.

Post #435,772

by crazy

8/20/20 8:07:50 AM

I was on the supply side

Largest junk mail printer in the world. Production plants in East Coast, West Coast, mid-country state. We had our own zip code at our plant. many many tractor trailers leaving and inserting our mail at various points in the postal stream. Which in turn meant following the rules perfectly. I learned about the ability to mail alligators and chickens in those days because I studied that god damn manual.

So anyway, it was just paying attention to the development from the early days on and occasionally visiting places.

While simultaneously doing our own OCR reader implementations on our own production lines.

When I wasn't in the middle of that database project or putting together a rack of sun servers my boss would go tell me to wander the floor and make it better. I was the guy with the clipboard and a very large budget and a boss who loved technology and gave me toys to play with.

what a blatant hypocrite! - (lincoln) - (67) - Aug. 14, 2020, 03:48:40 PM EDT

Probably using his own sorting machine too... - (scoenye) - (43) - Aug. 14, 2020, 05:03:39 PM EDT

'Impeachment' ..a disused word about to be removed from the O.E.D. - (Ashton) - (42) - Aug. 14, 2020, 05:41:20 PM EDT

She's calling them back. - (mmoffitt) - (41) - Aug. 17, 2020, 09:01:52 AM EDT

hard to figure the whole issue with mail in ballots - (boxley) - (40) - Aug. 17, 2020, 03:16:13 PM EDT

No - (drook) - (36) - Aug. 17, 2020, 03:28:43 PM EDT

✓✓ (GMTA) -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 17, 2020, 05:44:47 PM EDT

Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington State, where all voting is postal - (boxley) - (34) - Aug. 17, 2020, 07:27:58 PM EDT

Are you stupid or pretending? - (drook) - (33) - Aug. 17, 2020, 10:31:20 PM EDT

hardly please explain how you would run the post office - (boxley) - (31) - Aug. 18, 2020, 11:23:40 AM EDT

Must be nice. - (malraux) - (7) - Aug. 18, 2020, 11:53:02 AM EDT

must be a regional thing, of course I am not in a high density urban setting -NT - (boxley) - (6) - Aug. 18, 2020, 02:42:06 PM EDT

Our mail comes via Pontiac -NT - (malraux) - (4) - Aug. 18, 2020, 02:43:49 PM EDT

pontiac concerns, apparently pontiac sorts a buttton of mail - (boxley) - (3) - Aug. 18, 2020, 02:59:16 PM EDT

They took 2 sorting machines from Pontiac - (malraux) - (2) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:18:51 PM EDT

Stop lying - (drook) - (1) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:30:09 PM EDT

To be fair, that's what the union reps are saying. - (malraux) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:32:55 PM EDT

You know who is? Likely Democratic voters. I'm sure that's a coincidence. -NT - (drook) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:28:36 PM EDT

By not sabotaging it - (drook) - (3) - Aug. 18, 2020, 12:02:57 PM EDT

Re: By not sabotaging it - (boxley) - (2) - Aug. 18, 2020, 02:41:20 PM EDT

Re: By not sabotaging it - (malraux) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:04:08 PM EDT

Re: By not sabotaging it - (drook) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:33:09 PM EDT

You don't cripple them with the 75-year pension requirement - (crazy) - (18) - Aug. 18, 2020, 02:58:26 PM EDT

got a link to show that the pension requirement was a republican requirement? -NT - (boxley) - (17) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:00:38 PM EDT

What's the point? - (crazy) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:22:48 PM EDT

Re: got a link to show that the pension requirement was a republican requirement? - (malraux) - (15) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:30:07 PM EDT

Now Box admits he was wrong in 3 ... 2 ... oh who am I kidding? -NT - (drook) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:36:20 PM EDT

thank you, acknowledged -NT - (boxley) - (9) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:48:30 PM EDT

Seems less like deliberate sabotage and more like convenient target for something unrelated - (malraux) - (1) - Aug. 18, 2020, 04:05:38 PM EDT

at a glance it looks like a union members wet dream, why I thought it wasnt republican -NT - (boxley) - Aug. 18, 2020, 09:41:12 PM EDT

Receipt of information or that you are wrong? -NT - (crazy) - (2) - Aug. 18, 2020, 04:53:13 PM EDT

both why? -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 18, 2020, 09:41:37 PM EDT

Because you make silly arguments based on a glance - (crazy) - Aug. 19, 2020, 08:30:13 AM EDT

SIMPLEST factoid of which you seem (also) emotionally-unaware - (Ashton) - (3) - Aug. 18, 2020, 06:19:15 PM EDT

The USPS is a Federally mandated SERVICE yes it is - (boxley) - (2) - Aug. 18, 2020, 09:43:32 PM EDT

some good ideas on how to enable better stewardship of the postal service (longish read) - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 18, 2020, 10:21:18 PM EDT

So you googled and read for a bit - (crazy) - Aug. 19, 2020, 08:44:58 AM EDT

So, are y'all proud of how well you danced to his Gish Gallop tune there? -NT - (CRConrad) - (3) - May 18, 2021, 08:55:50 AM EDT

Still waiting for official reply: Why'd Norm & Bryce get the treatment they did, but not the BOx? -NT - (CRConrad) - (2) - May 18, 2021, 08:59:22 AM EDT

Re: Still waiting for official reply: Why'd Norm & Bryce get the treatment they did, but not the BOx - (crazy) - (1) - May 18, 2021, 12:38:54 PM EDT

Yeah I kinda draw the line at implied violence and off-the-hinge stalking/harassment - (malraux) - May 18, 2021, 03:01:01 PM EDT

A: Yes, he is. -NT - (CRConrad) - May 18, 2021, 08:48:03 AM EDT

Absentee ballot requests are way up this year. - (malraux) - (2) - Aug. 17, 2020, 03:41:22 PM EDT

That's because Democrats are liberal. Republicans are opposite. Not conservative, illiberal. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Aug. 18, 2020, 11:48:41 AM EDT

Not quite-Right enough: These are REACTIONARIES; the word ''conservative' ..was brutally murdered. - (Ashton) - Aug. 18, 2020, 08:25:11 PM EDT

well when you have to vote in NY NJ and florida, hard to do in person -NT - (boxley) - (2) - Aug. 14, 2020, 05:54:31 PM EDT

And not in Scotland? :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Aug. 15, 2020, 08:09:21 AM EDT

YOU keep my ancestral home out of this! - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 17, 2020, 09:09:25 AM EDT

DeJoy said they're postponing the changes until after the election - (malraux) - (19) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:12:39 PM EDT

"Oops, did someone keep pulling sorting machines? Guess they didn't get the memo." -NT - (drook) - (1) - Aug. 18, 2020, 03:37:46 PM EDT

(General Patton said that a bit more forcefully). -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 18, 2020, 08:34:15 PM EDT

Multiple reports of damage - (crazy) - (12) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:47:26 AM EDT

Any idea what kind of manpower each one replaces? - (drook) - (9) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:50:47 AM EDT

No - (crazy) - Aug. 19, 2020, 11:36:20 AM EDT

Capacity is almost 10 pieces/second - (scoenye) - (7) - Aug. 19, 2020, 05:30:34 PM EDT

What about database lookups and printing on the envelope? - (crazy) - (6) - Aug. 20, 2020, 09:15:20 AM EDT

You need to write a brief explainer - (drook) - (5) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:07:57 AM EDT

I haven't cracked open my laltop in about a year - (crazy) - (4) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:52:54 AM EDT

Consolidated and combined a few things - (drook) - (3) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:28:32 PM EDT

Does the job -NT - (crazy) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:03:30 PM EDT

Twatted - (drook) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:27:51 PM EDT

WAPO just came out with a similar thing, fewer numbers though - (malraux) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:44:14 PM EDT

That equipment is impressive. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:22:38 PM EDT

I was on the supply side - (crazy) - Aug. 20, 2020, 08:07:50 AM EDT

Dallas tried to put them back online - and failed - (scoenye) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2020, 07:45:57 AM EDT

Oopsie! -NT - (drook) - Aug. 21, 2020, 08:10:47 AM EDT

As I said - (crazy) - Aug. 21, 2020, 09:09:52 AM EDT

Just heard: House gets a whack at D'Joy next week (gloves off, one hopes) -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 06:11:01 PM EDT

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