On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > US Postal System shipping labels (via PayPal, via Pitney Bowes, using > > their Java craplet) is fraught with peril. Dragons be here! But who > > knows? It might work in Debian... for a week or two. > > Does this really surprise anyone?? USPS has a hard time getting mail to > the right address let alone actually writing code. > Well, their Windows software may suck, but on the other hand they were one of the first US Gov units that deployed a massive Linux infrastructure for OCRing the address, sorting and routing it. It is an impressive setup. It's interesting what will happen to them: it's a heavy ship with lots of difficult and non-technical issues (employees, pensions ,politics and funding). and the whole model is rapidly becoming obsolete: I would really like to have my mail spam-filtered because most of the stuff they bring into my house is junk, while the important stuff is important. There was a startup that wanted to intercept my mail, and scan it, and selectively deliver (spam-block most, keep electronic copy of the boring stuff, and deliver the physically valuable stuff). I liked the idea but USPS blocked them, probably because of political considerations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
