Some time ago a US Post Office employee told me they would have people
> sorting mail at home. The letters would go along a conveyor belt and
> a camera would flash the address to a person at home. The person
> would then key in the address and the machine would sort the letter.
> This is certainly technically feasible but I don't know if it came to
> pass. The P.O. is heavy into opscan, and most mail pieces are
> pre-barcoded.
The mail that the OCR / barcode scanner sorter cannot read is send to a machine with a camera and a remote operator reads the image and enters a address that is barcoded onto the mail.
-Hudson