there is absolutely no way you can write faster then a diad can scan it. You scan the package and it brings up all the address information.
I can do it
old school...meaning 6 digits plus ID# and the first 3 or 4 letters of the street name+ address on a 50-liner...just as fast as I can scan barcodes. A significant percentage, I would say at least 10%, of barcodes will
not scan so you wind up fighting with the shift key and listenting to the damn thing beep at you. And God help you if one of the letters you have to type in is an "friend" and you forget whether or not you hit the shift key, you wind up hitting "escape" instead and you get to start all over. On paper, you arent dealing with customers who cant figure the DIAD out, who cant find the stylus, who get all nervous and want to "start over" because their signature is just a scribble, or who wind up hitting the signature key with their left thumb due to its idiotic placement in the
worst location it could possibly be. Obtaining a signature on a 50 liner with a pen is routine. Obtaining a signature on a DIAD with a stylus is an adventure.
I will concede that, at a bulk stop with many tens or hundreds of pieces, the DIAD *might* be a bit faster....but for the majority of stops with 10 pieces or less there is no real difference. If you are following standard 340 methods the elapsed time from when you open the bulkhead door to when you return from the delivery and grab the handrail isnt going to be
any different.The arbitrary decision on the part of the company to reduce the piece allowance was nothing more than a calculated, deliberate attempt to screw us over. It was not based upon actual, real-world study, and it was never intended to be fair.