USPS has been scanning all mail going through sorting facilities with cameras for years now. All mail is photographed, image goes into a database, image is OCR

USPS has been scanning all mail going through sorting facilities with cameras for years now. All mail is photographed, image goes into a database, image is OCR processed, etc. This is only in recent years, but still. Interesting stuff: https://www.newsweek.com/postal-service-photographs-every-piece-mail-us-shares-agencies-request-it-280614 https://www.newsweek.com/postal-service-photographs-every-pi...