The United States Postal Service processed over 150 billion pieces of mail in 2013—far too much for efficient human sorting. But as recently as 1997, only 10% of hand-addressed mail was successfully sorted automatically.

The challenge in automation is enabling computers to interpret endless variation in handwriting.

By providing feedback, the Postal Service was able to train computers to accurately read human handwriting. Today, with the help of machine learning, over 98% of all mail is successfully processed by machines.

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