[Nd-talk] FW: Of Possible Interest From the Blind Bargains Crew

[Sherry Shirek]

FYI...

Sherry

The Post Office May Now Scan your Mail for You, Leading to Potentially More
Accessibility

J.J. Meddaugh

Apr 04, 2017 2:06 PM ET 

A new USPS service may be able to scan your mail for you before it is
delivered, potentially providing a more accessible way to read mail. The
Informed Delivery service
https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action
 has been tested in several cities and is schedule for a nationwide roll-out
on April 14. 

Each morning, subscribers to the free service will be sent an Email with
black and white scans of the outside of their letter-sized mail.
Theoretically, these scans could be fed into an OCR program like FineReader
or KNFB Reader for further processing and text readout. We have not been
able to test the service for accessibility as of the time of this post. 

The program is free but is currently limited to letter-sized mail and only
available to residential addresses. To sign up, use the link above and enter
your ZIP Code. Note that many more locations will be added on April 14 so if
it's not available to you now, try again in a few days. You will be mailed a
verification code which you must enter to use the service. This is done for
security reasons to prove you really live at the address you are using to
sign up. 

Have you tried Informed Delivery? Let us know what you think in the
comments. 

http://www.blindbargains.com/b/16980