1、DRAFT FOR DEVELOPMENT DD CEN/TS 14631:2005 Postal services Automatic identification of receptacles and containers Receptacle asset numbering ICS 03.240 DD CEN/TS 14631:2005 This Draft for Development, was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 18 March 2005 B
2、SI 18 March 2005 ISBN 0 580 45616 1 National foreword This Draft for Development is the official English language version of CEN/TS 14631:2005. It is identical with CEN/TS 14631:2005. It supersedes CEN/TS 14631:2003, which is withdrawn. This publication is not to be regarded as a British Standard. I
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10、, an inside front cover, the CEN/TS title page, pages 2 to 27 and a back cover. The BSI copyright notice displayed in this document indicates when the document was last issued. Amendments issued since publication Amd. No. Date Comments TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION SPCIFICATION TECHNIQUE TECHNISCHE SPEZIF
11、IKATION CEN/TS 14631 February 2005 ICS 03.240 Supersedes CEN/TS 14631:2003 English version Postal services - Automatic identification of receptacles and containers - Receptacle asset numbering Postalische Dienstleistungen - Automatische Kennzeichnung von Behltern und Containern - Assetnummerierung a
12、uf Behltern This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 11 October 2004 for provisional application. The period of validity of this CEN/TS is limited initially to three years. After two years the members of CEN will be requested to submit their comments, particularly on the question
13、 whether the CEN/TS can be converted into a European Standard. CEN members are required to announce the existence of this CEN/TS in the same way as for an EN and to make the CEN/TS available promptly at national level in an appropriate form. It is permissible to keep conflicting national standards i
14、n force (in parallel to the CEN/TS) until the final decision about the possible conversion of the CEN/TS into an EN is reached. CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, It
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16、sels 2005 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. CEN/TS 14631:2005: ECEN/TS 14631:2005 (E) 2 Contents page Foreword3 1 Scope 8 2 Normative references 9 3 Terms and definitions .9 4 Symbols and abbreviations 10 5 Definition an
17、d allocation of receptacle asset numbers .10 5.1 Definition 10 5.2 Field of application 10 5.3 Allocation of receptacle asset numbers10 5.4 Delegation of authority to issue receptacle asset numbers .12 5.5 Allocation of receptacle asset numbers under the UPU IAC 13 5.5.1 Introduction; use of issuer
18、code or format code13 5.5.2 Case in which the UPU IAC is followed by an S37 format code .13 5.5.3 Case in which the UPU IAC is followed by an issuer code .14 6 Representation of receptacle asset numbers on receptacles 14 6.1 Requirement for machine readable representation .14 6.2 Representation as a
19、 code 128 bar code 15 6.2.1 Bar coding requirement 15 6.2.2 Use of data identifier .15 6.2.3 Code 128 Element width .15 6.2.4 Code 128 bar height 16 6.2.5 Positioning and orientation 16 6.3 Representation in human-readable form 16 6.4 Representation on the receptacle in other forms.17 7 References t
20、o receptacle asset numbers in messages.17 7.1 Introduction17 7.2 ISO/IEC 15418 representation of receptacle asset number references .17 7.3 EDIFACT representation of receptacle asset number references 18 7.4 ASN.1 representation of receptacle asset number references .18 7.5 OCR and human-readable re
21、ceptacle asset number references18 8 Data capture and use of receptacle asset numbers.19 8.1 Data capture .19 8.2 Decomposition of receptacle asset numbers .19 9 Postal receptacle attributes20 10 Representation of receptacle attributes22 Annex A (informative) Examples of bar codes 23 A.1 Introductio
22、n23 A.2 Illustration of bar code for postal receptacle23 A.3 Illustration of bar code for postal receptacle label for a pallet .24 A.4 Illustration of bar code for postal receptacle label for a tray24 Bibliography 25 CEN/TS 14631:2005 (E) 3 Foreword This document (CEN/TS 14631:2005) has been prepare
23、d by Technical Committee CEN/TC 331 “Postal Services”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN, in collaboration with the UPU. NOTE This document has been prepared by experts coming from CEN/TC 331 and UPU, under the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between the UPU and CEN. This document
24、 (CEN/TS 14631:2005), is the CEN equivalent of UPU 1)standard S37-5. It may be amended only after prior consultation, between CEN/TC 331 and the UPU Standards Board, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between CEN and the UPU. This document has been prepared under a mandate given to C
25、EN by the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association. The UPUs contribution to the document was made, by the UPU Standards Board 2)and its sub-groups, in accordance with the rules given in Part V of the “General information on UPU standards“. This document is the second version of t
26、he Technical Specification, but corresponds to the fifth version (S37-5) of UPU standard S37. The revisions were primarily developed to ensure alignment between S37 and CEN/TS 14631. Substantive changes to the first version, TS 14631:2003, are: modification of the Foreword, to make it consistent wit
27、h that in S37-5; use of the term specification rather than standard to retain consistency between the CEN document, which is classed as a Technical Specification, and the UPU one, which is classed as a standard; update of the reference to ANSI MH10.8.2 and removal of the note concerning the draft ve
28、rsion for trial use; 5.5.1 now refers to the possibility of other numeric prefixes being defined, in UPU code list 3)156, without the need to update the main specification; update of 7.2 to reflect the usage of the GIN segment for reporting of container identifiers in UPU standard M34. 1) The Univer
29、sal Postal Union (UPU) is the specialized institution of the United Nations that regulates the universal postal service. The postal services of its 189 member countries form the largest physical distribution network in the world. Some 5 million postal employees working in over 660 000 post offices a
30、ll over the world handle an annual total of 425 billion letters-post items in the domestic service and almost 6,7 billion in the international service. Some 4.5 billion parcels are sent by post annually. Keeping pace with the changing communications market, posts are increasingly using new communica
31、tion and information technologies to move beyond what is traditionally regarded as their core postal business. They are meeting higher customer expectations with an expanded range of products and value- added services. 2) The UPUs Standards Board develops and maintains a growing number of standards
32、to improve the exchange of postal-related information between posts, and promotes the compatibility of UPU and international postal initiatives. It works closely with posts, customers, suppliers and other partners, including various international organizations. The Standards Board ensures that coher
33、ent standards are developed in areas such as electronic data interchange (EDI), mail encoding, postal forms and meters. UPU standards are published in accordance with the rules given in Part VII of the General information on UPU standards, which may be freely downloaded from the UPU world-wide web s
34、ite (www.upu.int). 3) UPU code lists define the interpretation to be given to codes used in the context of UPU standards. They are managed by the UPU Data and Code Definition Group and its Code Allocation and Maintenance sub-group, to which requests for the allocation of new code values may be submi
35、tted. The code lists are published on the UPU world-wide web site (www.upu.int) and are freely downloadable. CEN/TS 14631:2005 (E) 4 Annex A is informative. This document includes a Bibliography. According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following
36、 countries are bound to announce this CEN Technical Specification: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, S
37、weden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. CEN/TS 14631:2005 (E) 5 Introduction It is often useful, for both processing and transportation purposes, to be able to treat a group of postal items with common handling requirements as a single unit called a mail aggregate. This can be thought of as any set o
38、f postal items which has been physically grouped so as to permit such common handling. Examples include bundles, consignments and the content of a particular sorting machine output stacker or of a postal receptacle, such as a mailbag, tray or roller cage. As shown in Figure 1, mail aggregates can oc
39、cur at several nested levels. For example, the mail aggregate consisting of the set of postal items addressed to a particular delivery point can form part of a bundle of postal items destined for the same delivery postcode area, which can in turn be part of a mail aggregate, such as the content of a
40、 bag, to be delivered by a particular delivery agent, which in its turn can be part of a mail aggregate to be transported, in a roller cage, to the delivery office concerned. Key 1 Aggregate (bundle) identifier - removable label 2 Aggregate (tray content) identifier - removable label 3 Aggregate (ca
41、ge content) identifier - removable label 4 Receptacle (tray) Asset Number - fixed to receptacle 5 Receptacle (roller cage) Asset Number - fixed to receptacle Figure 1 - Mail aggregate nesting; aggregate identifiers and receptacle asset numbers NOTE 1 Figure 1 shows a roller cage containing both tray
42、s and bundles of individual items. The bundles have mail aggregate identifiers on the strap or wrapping which holds them together; each tray carries both a mail aggregate identifier, printed on a removable tray label, and a fixed tray identifier (a receptacle asset number). Similarly, the roller cag
43、e carries both a removable label with a content identifier and a fixed receptacle asset number. Note that bundles may be loose or placed in bags but, except in the case of explicit bilateral agreement, should not be placed in trays. CEN/TS 14631:2005 (E) 6 Although this is not strictly required, it
44、can simplify handling if mail aggregates are physically constrained to form a unit. Thus: low level mail aggregates are frequently constrained by bands or by poly-wrapping; intermediate level mail aggregates can be housed in trays or mailbags; these can in turn be housed in roller cages, or stacked
45、on pallets. In postal terminology, such physical housings are collectively referred to as (postal) receptacles. A postal receptacle is thus any device or container which can be used to physically constrain a mail aggregate in order to simplify its handling as a unit. Examples include mailbags, trays
46、, wheeled containers (roller cages), pallets, pallet-based containers and airfreight containers (ULDs). Road, rail and sea vehicles and containers can also be regarded as receptacles if appropriate. Postal receptacles are often handled by and exchanged between several parties, for example one or mor
47、e postal operators, customers, carriers, delivery agents, customs authorities, etc. Though they represent a significant capital asset for postal operators around the world, there is currently no adequate system for tracking their exchange between parties and significant losses occur. NOTE 2 It is es
48、timated that European posts have acquired some 1,5 million roller cages. Some posts are able to account for only 60 % to 70 % of these. The missing roller cages represent a total investment of more than 100 million euro! By reducing asset loss from non-repatriated postal receptacles, and by minimisi
49、ng the permanent loss of postal receptacles from the pipeline, the number of units in service (including stocks in reserve) could be more closely aligned to actual operational requirements. Ultimately this could enable postal operators to reduce the number of receptacles in circulation, thus reducing capital asset costs. A coherent asset management and control system that identified and tracked postal receptacles could thus offer many potential benefits, including significant cost reduc
