33 days in and i still have no idea what pre record is...
Definitely don't take my advice first and foremost.
Second, pre-record (PreRec softkey) is a way to record a stop and put it on pause basically. The only time i tend to use it is when I'm doing apartments or retirement homes and have multiple packages for different addresses. Here's an example.
Youre at a ghetto apt where things normally get stolen. Your center tells you that you're not allowed to DR there. So what you have to do is get signatures from all the tenants and if they arent in, you would take it to the main office or try to.
By putting all of the apt stops into pre-record, you can go to the address, knock on the door, if they answer, hit the pre-record button to bring up all stops in PreRec, find their stop, enter it and complete it. If they arent there you just go to the next address. Once you're done making your rounds, you go to the main office with all the leftover deliveries you werent able to make. They are all in PreRec so all you have to do is open PreRec and check LeftAt for all of them and then fill out where you left them at "Main Office", stop complete and youre done.
Its a courtesy to leave a note on the door for anyone who isnt home saying "Will try to leave at main office" since some offices arent accepting pkgs due to the corona virus hoax.
The only other time i use PreRec is when i run EAMs and the info has to be entered manually since I haven't got EDD yet and the stop isn't in my board. Scan package>> enter info >> big arrow down (important to hit big arrow down before hitting prerec otherwise it won't save the pkg info)