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candidate · p2026-09-06-031 · exclude-attribution

USPS clerk and mail-handler employment decline through the 1980s

set aside as

EXCLUDED BY ATTRIBUTION

the researcher's note

USPS clerk and mail-handler employment decline through the 1980s — single-line and multiline OCR and barcode sorters were hand-engineered template and feature matchers; only the remote-encoding shrink after 1997 is attributable to the learned system.

proposed by

researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-1930-1989

received

2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00

harvest report

impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-1930-1989.md

Rulings, in order

1. 2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00 · researcherexclude-attribution — USPS clerk and mail-handler employment decline through the 1980s — single-line and multiline OCR and barcode sorters were hand-engineered template and feature matchers; only the remote-encoding shrink after 1997 is attributable to the learned system.

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