We start at 830 on Mondays and 845 every other day of the week. But by the time we have the pcm, validate air stops and pretrip, no one is out of the building until 15 minutes after start time. There are a few routes that leave 30 minutes earlier each day but the preload is never down when they leave so they end up having package shuttled to them. Its hard enough getting the air off leaving at 9 I cant imagine leaving at 930.
The real problem can always be passed down the chain. As for midnight shift, they can at times only complete 20% of the unload and scan and sort. This leaving twilight having to make up 2, 3, 4 times more work then they have to. I've heard from a friend working midnight for a cover saying that people during the shift often stop working because they are getting a little sweaty. This even slowing or even stopping unload altogether. In my opinion, midnight is the hugest waste of money on a shift UPS has to offer.
Me and the kid next to me get the most packages in the easteren district. We've complete 1000 package days at 8:45 before, many times. But between the last minute air and ground stops that come down the line, sometimes 100 - 200 in the last 15 minutes of a shift, its hard to wrap up. We also have to stack out certain stops which also takes time to wrap. We both are the only cars in the HUB that are allowed to stack out, due to great amounts we recieve.
Of course there are lazy preloaders out there, I 've seen many. But over all finishing on time depends on how well oiled the HUB runs in all aspects. Not to menction they cut our start time back aswell, leaving most of the drivers asking why they did so, because we also are having trouble wrapping on time. UPS asking way too much for so little, what else is new.