Agree with you about the early morning rush. I am in the baggage make up hall quite often and you are right about the system backing up, its called die-back. It really becomes a problem when the check-in belts stop and the guys and girls at the desks panic and start piling the bags up on top of each other to get passengers checked in, when the system then restarts it cannot cope as the sensors do not see any spaces between the bags. Bags then have to be man handled to put them back on the belt in some sort of order that will let the system run, been there and it is a nightmare.
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