What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?
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Just hire a bunch of Pharmacists. They have years of experience reading the handwriting of Doctors
Ah yes, the pharmacy-to-usps pipeline
And many have died due to wrong prescriptions
I'm like 60% sure the pharmacist just gives you the medicine he knows you should get for your condition.
I always wondered how they read those things lol
A doctor commits suicide, and it takes a pharmacist to read the suicide note.
Imagine sending a motorcycles, but got sold by the government for your bad handwriting
All the effort spent fitting a motorcycle into the mailbox is wasted
@@DangNguyen-xx3zi the bigger question where do you stick the postal stamp? on the seat?
@@sirBrouwer given the amount of stamps you need, I'd say everywhere
That motorcycle was likely confiscated, not mailed. Govdeals is used by many government organizations.
@@cakearmy_maxgaming6346 ok nerd
Simple, scan all the doctor’s writing as a barcode and it’ll give you the address
Do maths writers like me count
I work at a hospital as a nurse and my handwriting is trash. One day another nurse told me to just write in all caps, best piece of advice ever. All men in healthcare should do so.
@@erickzuniga3113 yes but not every medical worker has bad handwriting
My dad is a doctor but he has a really good handwriting
@@abhidnyavbh relax. There's no such thing as an Absolute. I'm just saying for the majority of us...
@@trollrat2828 no actually
99 Electric Gloves sounds like a parody of 99 Luftballons awfully written by an AI.
Weird AI.
its weird cause "ninetynine electric gloves" fits perfectly with the song
99 Electric gloves
So no current trough you will pass
Protecting you from volts and amps
But thought the sender included stamps
his writing was... well, it quite sucked
I got them at an auction for a buck
So no current trough me will pass!
@@marekmichalovic8711 [AI-generated guitar solo]
@@marekmichalovic8711 99 Schutzhandschuhe zu helfen Oma's Seelenruhe, verfingen sich im Postsystem, das war nicht wirklich angenehm. 99 Postminister, Umschlag- und Papiergeknister, waren keine schlauen Leute, verhökerten die Handschuhbeute...
Just sent this to my middle school teacher,she used to yell at me for the wierd calligraphy I put her through
I don't even remember my middle school teacher...
now the video will be lost in mail
@@MetallicMutalisk lol
I’m almost out of high school and I remember my middle school teacher
@@Jay-qb9gi not much time has passed since you last went to middle school, plus you spent a higher proportion of your life in middle school than an adult so you remember more.
once when I was a kid I sent a letter to my grandmother. 2 moths latter I recived it back with the stamp
with the stamp with the post office logo saying "cancelled". concluded that I had put the district name instead of the city name and resubmitted it. of course I was upset because the price of stamps had doubled from 20 cents to 40 cents who knows why. a month later we decided to stay at my grandmother's house for christmas. I learned that the letter had never arrived. At the end of that week, the letter arrived, I found the situation very strange and I kept the letter. thanks to the inefficiency of the Portuguese post office, I sent a letter to myself across the country.
you can do a lot more in india. you just write a letter to your own address. then you have a son, who then has a son, who then recieves the mail. lovely, ikr?
Ala um português
@@AnaDazuva nós estamos em todo o lado. Ahahahaba
@snarl banarl You can be 100% certain that no one will be able to open it for years.
@@Duck-wc9de olá dos Açores :3
If this was a doctor's handwriting the machine would literally give up
Say that to my dad 😂😂 His handwriting is almost unreadable but I’ve gotten used to it so I can understand a bit
just blows up and catches fire
Say that to my new (to me) optometrist always given the 'here we go' treatment by Costco. They have given wrong online orders to people because 'his writing is too damn small'
In England, someone addressed a letter with three lines, the first was 'Wood' the next line 'John' and the third was 'Hants.' (short for the county of 'Hampshire'). The Royal Mail staff cracked it as addressed to a man in a town in Hampshire called 'Andover' and it was to 'John Underwood, Andover, Hants.'
the guy who wrote the letter probably designs riddles for a living
The next designer of the Escape Room
I deliver mail, and when I get something that is incompletely addressed, there's a part of me that wants to take it back for further sorting out of pure spite, even when I know exactly where it's supposed to go, because I don't want to encourage people not to address their mail properly. (this is in Finland)
@@Doorisessa use a red pen to fill in the missing information, return to sender, then let them mail it again
@@ToastGreeting that’s good
My handwriting is terrible, but there are people skilled enough to read it. I was once rewriting notes from a college class in an intentionally messy way, not so I could reread the notes but as a motor memory technique to memorize the concepts. Then my college friend picked it up and managed to read it and I was like, how on earth??? I can barely read it. Turns out she has a brother with even worse handwriting. haha
I get it, you don't read your notes, you decipher them
Is this how they train doctors in medical school?
Lol i had awful notes in high school and when i was reviewing for a test i couldn’t read them but my mom could read them just fine... might help shes a pharmacist
Imagine a joke so bad, HAI doesn't include it in his videos.
Impossible.
How to find out if a joke is a really bad joke:
Send it to HAI. If he doesn’t put it in a video, then you know it’s really really bad
The jokes they *do* use are war crimes, I don't want to imagine the atrocities they leave out.
@@InfinityBS or he will actually use them but block the video behind a paywall
Matpat jokes
There is a step you missed (that I only know because my mom used to work in a post office sorting facility): rejected mail gets a once-over by a worker at the sorting facility it was going through, and if they can read it or figure out where it's supposed to go they print a sticker with the info the machine will need to keep it moving, stick it on the front, and hand sort it to be sent off. This also happens with stuff that gets rejected for reasons other than bad handwriting, like overweight, damaged, insufficient postage, etc.
Can confirm as former mail centre technician.
Fun fact: If we had the sorting machines purring at a 95% sort rate they could process 35,000 letters/hr. There were 4 machines operating 16 hrs/ day
Can confirm as a cheese loving human being.
Protip: if you want to send contraband via the mail, make damn sure it has a legible address so it stays in the automated system and has a minimal amount of human interaction.
Next on Wendover Productions:
The Logistics of Reading a Doctor’s Notes
It simply can't be done.
George Carlin joke: The pharmacist is always stoned, ever notice that… check his eyes, he’s experimenting with something back there…. How come he can never fill a prescription right away? ‘Better come back in an hour… I can’t even read the bastard.’”
Imagine being so early you get to watch the no-ad at the start version on RUclips
I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear x
that's me
@@AxxLAfriku nigga I thought you had 2 girlfriends
Just use RUclips vanced
@@AxxLAfriku gfy
As the teachers say, "I'll throw it out."
your teachers smart
@@DyslexicMitochondria Hey bro I watch ur videos. Love your channeI
@@DyslexicMitochondria Hey bro I watch ur videos. Love your channeI
@@DyslexicMitochondria Hey bro I watch ur videos. Love your channeI
Haha!
*Laughs in federal law*
I once put eight postcards in a postbox in Harlem and none did ever reache their destination. It sucked because the transatlantic stamps were pretty expensive. It wasn't because of my bad handwritting because the two i posted in Wall Street did arrive.
I think that was a postbox anyway...
I don't know if this is a reference to an older video or real but a thumbs up nonetheless.
@@cheat200 I think this is in reference to Unabomber
If you don't have the country name listed then in most cases it can't be sent. There are exceptions such Canada where the postal code is enough with the province. There is a team that will attempt to figure out the country but if they can't then it will be returned to sender. If you didn't have a return address on the postcards then it would have been marked as dead mail
Unfortunately, with how the machines are, some pieces of mail her ripped and postcards are more vulnerable to it.
I've never seen a GovDeals sponsor spot before.
"without a single mistletoe." I LOLed.
Laugh Out Louded
@@nootics why do people on the internet randomly say "Laugh Out Loud"? Are they giving us commands like a sith lord who wants to collect the energy into a capsule??
@@xXJ4FARGAMERXx idk lol
Wait, aren't you on the refold jp discord? I remember this name...
@@nootics yes, i am.
According to my mother, when she worked in a hospital they had to occasionally put doctors on "print only," ergo they banned them from writing anything by hand.
Ooh, I think I actually know this! I used to wonder as a kid and then one day I looked into it and was absolutely fascinated by the entire process of how mail is processed automatically.
It's one of those things you never realize you wonder about.
Ayy we have the same profile picture!
@@DaniAalders Bisexual pride
@@megvmean yesssss
1:39 I’m a middle school teacher, and that poem isn’t half-bad.
You have to read worse than that? Wow, I'm so very sorry.
It's full-bad
You're right. I've seen worse.
It reads like something a 15-year-old would write. Any younger and it wouldn’t even be a poem.
“Formerly known as the *Mail Recovery Center”*
OSC Fans: **the infamous water spit of sudden surprise**
what's OSC?
@@damienfinnegan8272 object show community i think
@@damienfinnegan8272 In object shows, recovery centers are machines used to respawn characters.
I read your comment just as He was saying it in the video.
It's canon: HAI's is the grandson of WendoverProductions
0:08
the info we've all been waiting for
Canon*
No Sams were fired out of a tube in the making of this video
We just know they’re related, maybe only cousins
they gotta update the HAI wiki
This guy just solved a problem I've thought of before, forgot, and very glad for no particular reason that I've finally gotten the answer to
the most valuable knowledge from this video is that govdeals exists, I'm here rn and there is a frickin 1966 ford dumptruck for 3000 dollars
I hate when my dump truck gets lost in the mail
I hate when I can't find a vintage dump truck and have to use a modern new-built one instead.
I hate dump trucks.
@@itsdweezy I know right! Every damn time.
@@joshyaks Why do you hate dump trucks?
This reminds me of a particular rogue philatelist who would send letters to challenge the postal service. His name escapes me right now. For example, he would draw a map on the letter, or give a lengthy description of the location - they all arrived at their correct destinations eventually. The only time it failed, was when he recipient was "a random citizen in New York" - this was returned as it was not specific enough.
Sounds like something Richard Feynman would do.
"It gets sent to the Dead Mail Center, which sounds like a name for Jeffrey Dahmer's house"
fucking brilliant
I legit had to pause to process it lmaoo
1:54 1,600 addresses an hour? That's ~27 addresses a minute or 2.25 seconds for an address. Do they type it down, speak it into a device? I can barely say my full address in 2.25 and I know it by heart.
As a former coder for Canada Post, one coder will type in the postal code, (ie M3A 1A1). That postal code will represent an address range (ie. 100-200 Main Street), and another coder will type in street number or apartment number.
Yep it’s all typed! However, there’s a shortcut for keying addresses, because you usually don’t need the full address to send a letter to where it needs to go
i used to work here and it depends on a lot of things. theres separate programs for the different info each piece of mail needs like mail class, zip(+4), sender or receiver address, name/business, ect. we would type it out but there are shortcuts to code the addresses. ie: 382 e summer street san diego california = 382sums sandca
@@IFeelCaged I think my favorite one was the 3+1 code for Staten Island, NY: STAINY.
My mom was a postal clerk for 24 years. She could read almost anything. One of her friends wrote a society column for the local newspaper, but the woman's handwriting was pretty awful, so mom would type it out . Big help.
Wait a minute.. Did you see that? He said his grandfather’s last name was ‘Wendover’, which also happens to be the name of the channel ‘Wendover Productions’ which this channel constantly denies that they are the same person, but is this a coincidence? I think NOT!
Grandfather, probs his cousin ofc
Evil twins.
Because neither one is good.
Wendover is also a city on the border of Utah and Nevada
Wouldn't be surprised if Wendover started a negative-budget channel like this for all the cruft that wouldn't make the cut on the main one.
I worked at the Salt Lake REC for over 12 years. I was incredibly glad when I transferred.
I got burned out in less than a year but ended up being there for two trying to stay for the pay. The holidays were so hard.
I swear this man answers all the questions I didn’t know I cared about
Half as interesting jokes are as good as Season 9 of Scrubs, The Emoji movie and Sword art online.
1:49 Wait, what does it mean to "process an address"? 1600 an hour?? That's one address every 2.25s. I'm not sure if I can read a machine written address and type it up somewhere without mistakes in that amount of time. And certainly not 1600 in a row.
Ex UK postie here; worked for a while processing incoming international mail. The USPS returned a letter addressed to the Los Angeles Rams (football team) as insufficiently addressed.
Love your videos. The humor is always a welcome thing in a not half interesting life.
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
How do you know? Like, genuinely, I'm curious! Not to be rude or anything
@@jackiesteinmair2398 It's a joke from a previous HAI video.
1:50 1600/hour!
It's basically 2 second each.. how?
Exactly what I thought. If they have to write just two words per adress this should actually be impossible from the writing alone and that completely neglects unreadable stuff
we would type it in code. ie: 382 e summer street san diego california = 382sums sandca so usually its max 9 keys per mail depending on what part of the mail piece you're dealing with
I worked at the Remote Encoding Center for 8 months, and yes, the training process is as infuriating as it sounds. It's also worth mentioning there is not a single physical piece of mail inside the building, only about 300+ computers with programs that display images of the scanned mail that come in from various mail distribution centers across the US. Everyday you were assigned an area that dealt with either letters, magazines, packages, or other miscellaneous categories of mail. There was also an entire different section for verifying names of recipients and return addresses. Christmas time is less about letters to Santa (which we coded to a zip code in Alaska and arrived as early as September) and more so because of the likes of Amazon, black Friday, holiday shipping, etc.
Santa is coded to a zip code in Alaska? I thought he was coded to the town of Santa Claus, Indiana
That vid of all the cut jokes is the most compelling reason to get nebula
You missed a perfect opportunity to reference the AMPM as the gas station store instead of pronouncing it like uhm pum.
2:24 assuming a thickness of 0.05 mm/paper then a stack of 1.9 billion papers is 95 km (59 miles). The stack reaches the thermosphere.
That's enough paper that you need to take into consideration the air between them. Compressed paper with no space between each sheet is much more dense than, say, slightly rumpled papers of different types stacked in random order.
where do these jokes even come from... I cant believe how refreshing your video style is. please continue
no i have actually been wondering this for months. thank u
It's just me or the name of the grandpa should have been Half as Grandpa
I'm telling the giraffe on you.
Granpalf as Interesting
That was a mistletoe
when half as interesting becomes so hellbent on making terrible jokes he forgets to put the intro in
Whereas in Ireland, we've had people slap down a first name and a rough drawing of the roads around the deliveree's house, and had stuff be delivered on time. Starting in a different country.
Yes! Can't beat An Post.
Meanwhile I'm not getting my delivery with UPS because my 4-line address with Eircode and phone number isn't good enough. In the centre of Dublin.
Canada Post acts like that sometimes. I could send a letter to my dead mother, at an address we lived at for just six months, some twenty years ago. The local post office would scratch out the old address, write in a new address, and my father would get the letter at the house he moved to last year. But that might just be small town living.
@@johnladuke6475 I'd say that's small town living. In a small town, it's easier for postal employees to remember each individual customer. So, even after the Forward has expired, if they know that person by name, they'll be nice and rewrite the correct address.
Chances are that's not gonna happen very often at bigger post offices (Too many customers to remember). It also depends on each individual carrier. Some carriers are willing to go that extra mile, while others, if they see that the Forward has expired, even if they *can* figure out the new address, they'll just Return to Sender anyway.
"Send this to Tim, he lives down a road and over a culvert"
1. shows flat sorter with a letter. different machine.
2. If mail can't be read by the remote center, it will be looked at by a human working "manual mail" at the local facility. they then send to dead letter.
3. it is not all just bad hand writing, sometimes mail is damaged by machines or get wet and smears writing.
Could they not just return it back to the sender's address? even if it's not legible surely there's a record of it
Probably, not always the case.
If there's even a return address. A lot of mail doesn't have a return address
Why would there be a record of the sending address? The mail carrier isn't putting serial numbers on individual letters to track where they came from when they pick them up from your mailbox. If your route even has pickup. If I drop an illegible envelope in the mailbox down the block, how does anyone know it came from my house?
It gets marked as returned to sender and then sent to a queue where we look for a return address on the image
If the return address can't be read, and if it's just a normal letter without tracking, then no.
“Grandpa Wendover”
So HAI and Wendover are siblings or cousins
“without a single mistletoe” - love it!
I mailed a comic book (a "Bob's Burger" comic under $25) in 2019, to a guy in Texas and forgot to put his apartment number on it. I realized this later that day, call USPS to change it and told them the tracking number. They said they would have try to be delivered, before they could change the address. So I tracked it, and called them once it was out for delivery. They said they would flag it and redeliver it the next day. I guess the local post office didn't get the message because as I kept tracking it, and saw it was now headed to Atlanta. Once it got to Atlanta, it said it was at the "Dead Mail Center". I did call the Dead Mail Center and explained what happen, they said if they found it, they would updated it and remail it. But they never did.
That comic book must have clear sentimental value.
And now it's worth well over a million dollars today.
Is anybody else shocked that somebody would fail to claim an ENTIRE Harley Davidson motorcycle and instead give it away to the government?
No? Me neither.
That website isn't just for lost mail. Confiscated goods and things the government just wants to get rid of are also sold there.
If you realise that people even seem to forget there artificial leg on the bus. People just forget.
I mean I assume that the artificial leg is needed to walk. So a bike easy.
Oh guys, I was only poking fun at the dead brand
Probably just wanted to avoid spending all the time and money keeping it running. Because after all that, best case scenario, you have to ride a Harley.
0:08 confirmed that Half as Interesting and Wendover productions is the same guy, but I guess the not the same guy jokes will persist?
This man is really answering questions
"without making a single mistletoe" This floored me.
I bet i'd laugh more if i understood what mistletoe meant, but i guess i'll just stay like a child who doesn't know what google is.
That Dahmer joke caught me so off guard 💀💀
*joke about doctor’s handwriting*
Yo! I work at the REC! Glad to see it talked about in one of your videos! 😁
Nice video as always!
Why is his grandpa named Grandpa Wendover? Is he related to Sam from Wendover?
they are archnemesis
"dead mail center, which sounds like a name for Jeffrey Dahmer's house" holy shit I was not ready at all for that.
it was uh
Uh
UHHHHHH
this guy will never run out of original ideas
Your first joke made me laugh and I like your video. Then I laughed about five more times throughout. Great content! Immediately subscribed!
2:46 please help me. the best i can read is:
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The signature is from "The Animator" (they put some easter eggs around the videos). Congrats on translating most of the hidden message, I couldn't read even half of it! Now hoping Sam will fully reveal it, eventually.
Yes finally, Gramps know that jokes are bad and detract from the videos.
The dead mail center processed a package filled with rare beetles for my husband. It took over a year from when the box fell behind the parcel sorter to be dug out by an enterprising postal worker, shipped to Atlanta (because the label was destroyed), opened and identified. We had filed a claim a month after it didn't show up, so it was pretty easy for them to find the guy asking for weird beetles. I'm so grateful they classified a box full of bugs as sentimental, because they indeed are.
Did the beetles survive?
@@user2C47 They certainly had a hard day's night.
I love watching videos like this during a workout but i just can’t help laughing from the jokes he makes
(This is a funny comment)
I'm not 100% sure but I think this video would less than 2 minutes long without all the useless jokes.
Those guys videos are so sarcastically awesome lol. Flippin witty and makes you actually think lol
I worked at the post office for a bit and the person who handled these items always recommend putting an address on the items inside.
Or, like, writing extremely clearly on the outside in the first place. How many packages does a typical person send out in a day anyway?
1:05 "incase the government decides to take your guns away" now h.a.i is finally saying something I can agree with, even if it is sarcasm
careful, they might take your minecraft too
Lol that’s the big USPS center, I was always wondering why it was so big lol.
Love your vids
This channel gets better and better every time, good thing you blurred the video at the end I heard Giraffes are very litigious.
I was able to eventually get an international package when I forgot the first digit of my postcode. Obviously that wasn't because of this system, it was a printed label. But some other contiguency plan when into play after the OCR couldn't match the label with anything in the database that eventually got it to the town post office where the workers went "oh yeah that's an address in our three postcode town, and the only address of its kind."
the dead mail building sounds like a cool job dou
This joke companion video is what I was expecting for to subscribe to nebula
Those workers must be amazing at filling captchas
I have worked at the Remote Encoding Center, and you are correct, that test is no joke.
One thing I've seen a lot of working in the postal service is when a sender is a business, large enough to send out large volumes of mail or parcels, but not big enough to have a fully automated address printing system.
They'll print their return address (as that doesn't change) , but they'll hand write the recipients address.
The automated systems can't always read the handwritten address, so the machine sorts it back to the sender
hey I'm pretty sure I've been to the MRC in Atlanta since it's the post office with the latest cut off times (like 8 or 9pm since it's important or something)
We love your jokes by the way
I worked at the REC for 2 years, but we get the mail in images on a computer screen and do it all electronically so that don't have to use the money to ship it all the way there and then all the way back out.
The Friends cameo was a nice touch.
I just read for five hours straight so this is clearly the best kind of content to consume right after
That's some crazy speed right there. 750/hr is one every 4.8 seconds on average, and 1600/hr is an average of one every 2 1/4 seconds!
The mail never stops coming
If you haven't subscribed to Nebula yet, you absolutely need to do that if only for the cut out jokes. These are absolutely incredible, props to your writers Sam!
I used to work at the REC in Tampa, FL until they shut it down. They have an entirely different system for typing and a modified keyboard that takes about 2 weeks full time to learn and the test is quite hard. The job itself was very hard to stay awake for. You stare at a screen and an image pops up, and you type the part that they are asking for, and they constantly monitor how fast and accurate you type. But you could listen to your headphones, which was cool. And you get a 5 minutes break every hour.
You mean a 5, 10, 5, lunch, 5, 10, 5?
@@compute0010 Yeah, that's right. Those 10 minutes breaks were great.
I just wanna say I personally really like these jokes and videos :)
I was literally wondering about this earlier today
The jokes are good, keep em coming
I’ve actually been wondering this exact question for a while, and then the algorithm conveniently serves me the answer
I honestly hoped HAI to post the link to that fanfiction in the description
In 1994, I sent a letter to a friend with the address encrypted using a simple substitution cipher, where A=Z, B=Y, C=X, etc. I didn't encrypt the return address, and wrote a little note that said, "Use this only if you can't figure it out." It got through just fine.
My mom used to work at that processing center
Nice. I'll keep this in mind the next time I write a letter!
I just wrote my entire address in calligraphy and I'm really regretting it D: