How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
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A USPS keyer enters just enough of a difficult address for a database to find candidates. Some parcels are still on the conveyor. A correct answer arriving after the deadline leaves the parcel in the manual sorting bin.
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compares it to the known-good addresses in the database.it dumps it off into a reject bin