The current Express "Powerpad" software doesn't have ANY proactive features included within it.
The ASTRA labels do indicate the service area of a package, but this isn't looked at when Couriers load their volume - they only look for Priority Overnight, Standard Overnight, then everything else. First Overnight (usually 8AM or 8:30AM service, depending on distance the delivering station is from the ramp) is delivered by separate routes, since in most locations, the AM sort is ending right around those time - no way to get FO out on regular delivery routes.
The service area is coded NOT with a committment time, but rather a service area code.
Couriers are "expected" to know that when looking at a package with a specific service area code, to know the commitment time for that piece and plan their stop order accordingly.
There are NO alerts that come across the Powerpad to the Courier that they have a piece that is nearing a certain commit time - Couriers are expected to leave the station with volume they can make committment time with (that is the theory). If they miss committment time, they are only notified when they get back to the station and a report is run that indicates any late PODs. More often than not, Couriers are making their final P1 delivery at 1028, so having 15 to 20 minute alerts would be useless - there is no cushion provided to ensure that issues regarding committment time are avoided. Express maximizes productivity by loading up each route with as many P1 as they can possibly get off by the 1030 committment time - no margin for error. If the sort ends late, if traffic is heavier than usual, if the roads are under construction - there will be service failures, count on it.
On the pickup side, any alerts to pickups that are nearing their close time are initiated by dispatchers - the powerpad is a brick in this aspect.
The powerpad software DOESN'T prompt the Courier what the next stop to be made is - it is determined by the delivery Courier's stop order in the back of the truck (which they load their truck into), or for the pickup Courier, the order which they choose to hit their pickups. The Powerpad is merely a record keeping device, not a job aid for the Courier (only aids in eliminating paper record keeping).
Courier Best Practices (think this has died) trained Couriers to look at the address of their next stop as they are retreiving the volume for the current stop from the truck, then spend no further time looking at their volume. If they forget the exact street address (resi usually), they will spend a little extra time walking from where they stop the truck to where they should've stopped the truck. There is NO WAY for the Courier to look at their Powerpad and have the next delivery address appear - capability doesn't exist.
Many inexperienced Couriers will actually go through the truck after they have loaded it, and manually write out the address to which they will stop, so they have a "manifest of stops" to keep with them in the cab (they're NOT supposed to do this). Believe it or not, this actually saves them time over the course of the day (spending 10 minutes writing down addresses in order), compared to all the back and forth in the back of the truck - then if the contents get tossed, they still have a delivery order manifest along with a piece count for each stop written down.
The Express ROADS software will indicate which route on which a piece is to be loaded onto, but as of yet, doesn't indicate a stop order indication (address code 5325 is placed after address code 4983 in the truck).
After Express Couriers have placed a truck scan on all their pieces (Van Scan), there is no procedure for them to get any sort of printout or manifest (paper or electronic) as to which addresses will be "visited". The Courier is expected to maintain some recollection of what they have in the back, and hope to God that their stop order isn't trashed when they turn across a gutter and have their truck pitch back and forth and have the back tossed around. There are no cargo nets provided to cover packages placed on the shelves in stop order, to prevent them from being tossed.
Express is about 5-10 years behind UPS in the use of information technology in the hands of its drivers. Express does have the capability to have the ROADS labels now indicate a stop order prioritization, but engineering hasn't of yet finalized what a specific route's pattern will be (which would enable all addresses to be assigned a stop ordering, to determine truck stop order loading).
I believe that the reason Express has held off on the introduction of stop ordering software for Express routes, is that any efforts to make the software that would enable stop ordering to occur via IT means, would be rendered useless after Express converts to having delivery of non-overnight moved over to Ground.