Embarrassingly, I didn't believe it when I was told USPS OCR rejects less than 5% of hand-written address. I assumed that even if you could read the writing, th

Embarrassingly, I didn't believe it when I was told USPS OCR rejects less than 5% of hand-written address. I assumed that even if you could read the writing, the format would be too irregular to parse a lot of the time. Part of the reason I was wrong is that so much of the address is redundant. I think they only use four letters of the street name, for example, before they essentially always can narrow it down to one possibility in their database.