1、raising standards worldwideNO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWBSI Standards PublicationDD CEN/TS 15844-5:2010Postal services ID-tagging ofletter mail itemsPart 5: 4-state encoding specification forsmall lettersDD CEN/TS 15844-5:2010 DRAFT FOR DEVELOPMENTNational fo
2、rewordThis Draft for Development is the UK implementation of CEN/TS15844-5:2010.This publication is not to be regarded as a British Standard.It is being issued in the Draft for Development series of publicationsand is of a provisional nature. It should be applied on thisprovisional basis, so that in
3、formation and experience of its practicalapplication can be obtained.Comments arising from the use of this Draft for Developmentare requested so that UK experience can be reported to theinternational organization responsible for its conversion toan international standard. A review of this publicatio
4、n willbe initiated not later than 3 years after its publication by theinternational organization so that a decision can be taken on itsstatus. Notification of the start of the review period will be made inan announcement in the appropriate issue of Update Standards.According to the replies received
5、by the end of the review period,the responsible BSI Committee will decide whether to support theconversion into an international Standard, to extend the life of theTechnical Specification or to withdraw it. Comments should be sentto the Secretary of the responsible BSI Technical Committee at British
6、Standards House, 389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL.The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to TechnicalCommittee SVS/4, Postal services.A list of organizations represented on this committee can beobtained on request to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all
7、the necessaryprovisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correctapplication. BSI 2011ISBN 978 0 580 63260 0ICS 03.240Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity fromlegal obligations.This Draft for Development was published under the authority ofthe Standards Policy and Str
8、ategy Committee on 31 January 2011.Amendments issued since publicationDate Text affectedDD CEN/TS 15844-5:2010TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION SPCIFICATION TECHNIQUE TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION CEN/TS 15844-5 December 2010 ICS 03.240 English Version Postal services - ID-tagging of letter mail items - Part 5: 4-
9、state encoding specification for small letters Traitement automatis des envois postaux - Chronomarquage des envois postaux - Partie 5: Spcification de codage en code 4 tats pour les lettres Postalische Dienstleistungen - ID-Kennzeichnung von Briefsendungen - Teil 5: Spezifikation der 4-State-Codieru
10、ng fr Standardbriefe This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 1 December 2008 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
11、 question 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 st
12、andards in 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, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, H
13、ungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG Management Ce
14、ntre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels 2010 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. CEN/TS 15844-5:2010: EDD CEN/TS 15844-5:2010CEN/TS 15844-5:2010 (E) 2 Contents Page Foreword 3Introduction .41 Scope 52 Normative references
15、53 Terms and definitions .54 Symbols and abbreviations 55 Usage limitations .56 Value range limitations .67 Encoding specification .68 Printing of the bar code 78.1 General 78.2 Optical characteristics of the ink .78.3 Bar code placement .88.3.1 Printing directly on domestic items .88.3.2 Printing d
16、irectly on cross-border items . 108.3.3 Placement on labels . 119 Reading and interpretation of Postal-4i ID-tags 1110 Conversion to the message and binary representations . 11Annex A (informative) Postal-4i ID-tag generator . 12Annex B (informative) Examples 14Bibliography . 15DD CEN/TS 15844-5:201
17、0CEN/TS 15844-5:2010 (E) 3 Foreword This document (CEN/TS 15844-5:2010) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 331 “Postal services”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights
18、. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. 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, CEN/TS 15844-5, is the CEN
19、equivalent of UPU 1)standard S18e-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. The UPUs contribution to the document was made, by the UPU Standards Board 2)and its sub-g
20、roups, in accordance with the rules given in Part V of the “General information on UPU standards“. This document forms Part 5 of a multi-part CEN/TS 15844, Postal services ID-tagging of letter-mail items. It should be read in conjunction with the main body of the specification, CEN/TS 15844-1. It al
21、so relies heavily on Part 4 of the specification, CEN/TS 15844-4. According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to announce this Technical Specification: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmar
22、k, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. 1)The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is the specialized instituti
23、on 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 all over the world handle an annual total of 425 bil
24、lion 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 communication and information technologies to move beyond wh
25、at 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 to improve the exchange of postal-related information
26、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 coherent standards are developed in areas such as electroni
27、c 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 site (www.upu.int).DD CEN/TS 15844-5:2010CEN/TS 15844-5
28、:2010 (E) 4 Introduction A general introduction to all parts of the specification is provided in CEN/TS 15844-1. This part deals only with the encoding of ID-tags in the form of a 4-state bar code printed on the front side of small letters. For consistency with Part -4 of the specification, on which
29、 it depends, it is arranged under six main headings: Clause No. Description of content 5 Usage limitations: defines limitations on the use of the Postal-4i 4-state encoding of ID-tags specified in this document; 6 Value range limitations: defines limitations on the values of data elements used in ID
30、-tags which are to be represented on small letters in the form of a Postal-4i bar code; 7 Encoding specification: specifies the construction of a 4-state bar code from ID-tag data elements; 8 Printing of the bar code: to allow the association of computer data with a physical item, the ID-tag is prin
31、ted on the item itself. This clause defines required ink and printing parameters; 9 Reading and interpretation of Postal-4i ID-tags: specifies the validation and error correction requirements associated with the reading of ID-tags represented using Postal-4i symbology; 10 Conversion to the message a
32、nd binary representations: describes the correspondence between 4-state bar coded representation and the binary and message interchange representations defined in CEN/TS 15844-1. These are complemented by two informative annexes, the first providing references to an example implementation of the Pos
33、tal-4i ID-tag generation algorithm and the second providing a number of example ID-tags, generated using this implementation. DD CEN/TS 15844-5:2010CEN/TS 15844-5:2010 (E) 5 1 Scope This part of the Technical Specification defines the representation of ID-tags as a Postal-4i symbology 4-state bar co
34、de printed on the front side of small letters. Postal-4i symbology 4-state encoding is the only encoding specification supported by this Technical Specification 3)for the printing of ID-tags on the front of items. NOTE Representation in the form of fluorescent BNB bar codes printed on the reverse si
35、de of small letters (not flats) is covered in CEN/TS 15844-2 and CEN/TS 15844-3. 2 Normative references The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the r
36、eferenced document (including any amendments) applies. CEN/TS 15844-1:2010, Postal services ID-tagging of letter mail items Part 1: ID-tag structure, message and binary UPU S48, Postal-4i: 4-state symbology and its use for the encoding of data on postal items 3 Terms and definitions A number of comm
37、on terms used in this document are defined in the UPU Standards glossary, in documents referred to in normative references and in the bibliography. Definition of frequently used or particularly important terms as well as other terms introduced in this document are given below. See CEN/TS 15844-1:201
38、0. 4 Symbols and abbreviations See CEN/TS 15844-1:2010. 5 Usage limitations The 4-state bar coded representation of ID-tags defined in this part of the specification is intended for use on the front side of small letters in area F1. Printing of ID-tags in this area is allowed only on domestic items
39、and on items addressed to countries in which the delivery post has confirmed willingness to accept items with a 4-state ID-tag in that area. NOTE 1 Many posts use area F1 for the encoding of routing data, used to support automated sorting of both domestic and incoming cross-border items. The printin
40、g of an ID-tag in area F1 on cross-border items to countries which require F1 to be kept clear for this purpose could cause serious disruption to such countries automated processing systems and could result in misprocessing or substantial delay to the items concerned. It would also be in breach of t
41、he UPU letter post regulations. This Technical Specification therefore requires that postal administrations making use of area F1 for ID-tag encoding should take care to avoid such use of area F1 on items addressed to other countries that have not declared their willingness to accept items with an I
42、D-tag in area F1 as standard items. 3) References to “this Technical Specification“ should be interpreted as references to CEN/TS 15844 as a whole, not only to Part 5. DD CEN/TS 15844-5:2010CEN/TS 15844-5:2010 (E) 6 The specification may be applied to the printing of ID-tags in other areas on the fr
43、ont of items. It shall not be used in area R1 on the reverse side. NOTE 2 Usage in other areas on the front is permitted, but could result in interference with, or by, codes placed by other systems and is not recommended. NOTE 3 Usage on the reverse side, and particularly usage in area R1, could ser
44、iously disturb the operation of older systems which are designed to work only with BNB encodings of ID-tags and is not permitted. 6 Value range limitations The value range limitations defined in CEN/TS 15844-4 apply also to this part of the Technical Specification. 7 Encoding specification The bar c
45、ode shall be generated in compliance with UPU standard S48, using the following parameters: a) format code (f) value: equal to bits 0-3 of the binary ID-tag value, as defined in CEN/TS 15844-1; NOTE 1 This assists in distinguishing Postal-4i ID-tags from other bar codes which use Postal-4i symbology
46、. See S48 for a definition of the symbology parameters f, l, r, c and n. b) left synchronisation code (l) value: 010110 (22 decimal); c) right synchronisation code (r) value: 100110 (38 decimal); NOTE 2 This also assists in distinguishing Postal-4i ID-tags from other bar codes which use Postal-4i sy
47、mbology. d) number of variable data codewords (c) value: 13; e) bar code length (n): 1) on domestic items: 57 or 75, with 75 being recommended unless the bar code is to be printed in area F1 and it is desired to leave space for the possible printing of a routing code in the same area; NOTE 3 Either
48、value can be used on domestic items, though only the short (57 bar) version leaves room for a routing code to be printed in the same area. The use of the 57 bar format is not recommended for use in areas other than F1 because its error correction capability is not considered sufficient to support an
49、 adequate read rate in positions which could include printing or writing in other inks. 2) on cross-border items, where the bar code is to be printed in area F1, either 57 or 75 as required by the delivery post concerned; NOTE 4 On cross-border items it is permitted to print an ID-tag in area F1 only on items addressed to countries in which the delivery post has confirmed willingness to accept this. The bar code length used is required to correspond with the expressed preference of the delivery post concerned: those wishing to
