We had a PM courier who was fired a while back because he had too many accidents. He was doing a PUP route that started at 1515, and there were on most days more than 25 1700 closes. WhenI was a swing, I ran the route quite a few times. The route was impossible because of the late start time. In fact, I took quite a few late PUP's, as did all the other swings on this route. The regular courier never had lates, and we suspected something was wrong. After he was fired, one of the regulars told me that most days he would show up in his personal vehicle on the way to work to grab their packages, and another who told me he would call them and ask them to leave the packages OSD or in the drop box down the street. Managers would always give us swings a hard time for the lates, but we never knew the particulars till customers started telling us after he was fired. All that falsification because he was a favored employee, but too many accidents will get anyone fired. The person they hired next to do the route, did so without falsifying, took the lates. and now they moved the start time back to 1415 where it should be.