Collaborate Disseminate
Well, we’re just zipping right through this series, no? So far we’ve looked at various postal machines and how they work to flip mail around, cancel the postage, and sort …read more Continue reading You’ve Got Mail: Grilled, Scrambled, and Other Delicious Stamps
Previously on You’ve Got Mail, we looked at a few services that were designed to speed up the mail at various points along the way. But these improvements were all …read more Continue reading You’ve Got Mail: It All Depends on ZIP Code
When we last left the post office, they had implemented OCR to read even the sloppiest of handwriting. And to augment today’s 99% accuracy rate, there’s a center full of …read more Continue reading You’ve Got Mail: Faster and Faster We Go
Last time I delivered on this column, I told you about the USPS’ attempts to fully automate a post office. Of course, that’s a bit of a misnomer, since it …read more Continue reading You’ve Got Mail: Reading Addresses With OCR
We often read about the minicomputers of the 1960s, and see examples of their use in university research laboratories or medium-sized companies where they might have managed the accounts. It’s tempting though to believe that much of the world in those last decades of the analogue era remained untouched by computing, only succumbing in the decade of the microcomputer, or of the widespread use of the Internet.
What could be more synonymous with the pre-computing age than the mail system? Hundreds of years of processing hand-written letters, sorted by hand, transported by horses, boats, railroads and then motor transport, then …read more
Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Reading and Sorting Mail Automatically
Your daily round-up of what else is in the news Continue reading News in brief: meals on robot wheels; Mirai blamed for new attacks; police bypass iPhone encryption
Thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office customers in the UK have been cut off from the internet for days.
The reason? A malicious attack against poorly-protected broadband routers.
Continue reading TalkTalk and Post Office customers lose internet access as routers hijacked
Thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office customers in the UK have been cut off from the internet for days.
The reason? A malicious attack against poorly-protected broadband routers.
Continue reading TalkTalk and Post Office customers lose internet access as routers hijacked