Innovation
The Voice Is Your Stamp
United States Postal ServiceĀ®
Issue 45 | December 2017
Background
For centuries, the United States Postal Service had been quietly innovating better ways to move mail. ZIP codes and Optical Character Recognition were revolutionary in their time, helping the widest mail delivery system in the world run efficiently even as it scaled larger and larger. In the new age of voice recognition, this Smart Blue Box, the voice stamp feature and its potential for a network of Internet-capable mailboxes was designed to be the next big step forward for mail.