1、raising standards worldwideNO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWBSI Standards PublicationBS EN 14142-1:2011Postal services AddressdatabasesPart 1: Components of postal addressesBS EN 14142-1:2011 BRITISH STANDARDNational forewordThis British Standard is the UK implem
2、entation of EN 14142-1:2011.It supersedes BS EN 14142-1:2003 which is withdrawn.The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to TechnicalCommittee SVS/4, Postal services.A list of organizations represented on this committee can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 no
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4、dards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 August 2011.Amendments issued since publicationDate Text affectedBS EN 14142-1:2011EUROPEAN STANDARD NORME EUROPENNE EUROPISCHE NORM EN 14142-1 August 2011 ICS 03.240 Supersedes EN 14142-1:2003English Version Postal services - Address databases - Part 1: Com
5、ponents of postal addresses Services postaux - Bases de donnes dadresse - Partie 1: Composants des adresses postales Postalische Dienstleistungen - Adressdatenbanken - Teil 1: Bestandteile der postalischen Anschrift This European Standard was approved by CEN on 18 June 2011. CEN members are bound to
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10、ny means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. EN 14142-1:2011: EBS EN 14142-1:2011EN 14142-1:2011 (E) 2 Contents Page Foreword 3Introduction .51 Scope 62 Normative references 73 Terms and definitions .74 Symbols and abbreviations . 135 Postal address components 136 Element and eleme
11、nt sub-type codes 307 Postal address templates 328 Postal address rendition instructions 33Annex A (normative) prEN 14142-1 Conceptual Hierarchy 34Annex B (normative) Postal Address Template Languages 45Bibliography . 57BS EN 14142-1:2011EN 14142-1:2011 (E) 3 Foreword This document (EN 14142-1:2011)
12、 has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 331 “Postal Services”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN. This document shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by February 2012, and conflicting national stan
13、dards shall be withdrawn at the latest by February 2012. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. This document supersedes EN 1
14、4142-1:2003. 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 (EN 14142-1:2011), is the CEN equivalent of UPU1)standard S42-6 Part A. It may be amended only after prior consul
15、tation, 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 Board2)and its sub-groups, in accordance with the rules given in Part V of the “General information
16、 on UPU standards“. EN 14142-1:2011 is based on UPU S42-6 Part A “International postal address components and templates Part A: Conceptual hierarchy and template languages“ 1. This document is the equivalent to Part A of a two-part UPU Standard, S42: International postal address components and templ
17、ates. S42 was originally published as a single part standard covering the definition of address components and postal address templates with examples, but has been split into two parts in order to separate the general aspects which apply to all countries and which can be expected to remain stable fr
18、om the specific aspects which apply to each country considered in itself and conventions adopted by the working group which may be modified in the light of further experience. For example, the conceptual hierarchy of segments, constructs, elements and element sub-types, code tables, and the definiti
19、on of the template languages will be found in EN 14142-1:2011, while the specific natural language and XML templates, rendition instructions, mapping conventions, and presentation guidelines for each country are included in CEN/TR 14142-2:2010. 1)The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is the specialized i
20、nstitution 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
21、 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 communication and information technologies to move b
22、eyond 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 to improve the exchange of postal-related info
23、rmation 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 e
24、lectronic 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).BS EN 14142-1:2011EN 14142-1
25、:2011 (E) 4 EN 14142-1:2011 contains a revised element list with several elements added or deleted, and defines an expanded roster of element sub-types in order to account for addresses from countries around the world that are either represented with templates defined in EN 14142-1:2011 or have been
26、 provided to the UPU as sample addresses. Many of these sample addresses can be found on the UPU web site, though from time to time that site is updated with changes and new examples. As part of the work of the Addressing Project Group, the Web site addresses will be mapped according to the UPU elem
27、ent list, including element sub-types, from EN 14142-1:2011, using the mapping conventions detailed in CEN/TR 14142-2:2010. CEN/TR 14142-2:2010 describes the address templates for each country, i.e. the specific way an address is formatted in each country, indicating in particular the order in which
28、 the various elements appear. The address templates are supplemented by rendition instructions, specifying how elements are to be rendered for printing.3)According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this Eur
29、opean Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and
30、the United Kingdom. 3)The Brazilian postcode, for example, is saved in the format 99999999 in a database. However, in an address, the postcode should be printed in the format 99999999. The rendition instructions therefore state that the Brazilian postcode is printed with a dash between the 5th and 6
31、th digits. BS EN 14142-1:2011EN 14142-1:2011 (E) 5 Introduction The postal service provides letter, package and parcel delivery4)on a global and universal basis, without the need for recipients to enter into explicit service contracts. Postal addresses, which combine private recipient information wi
32、th publicly known delivery point data, provide the mechanism through which mailers specify the intended recipient and the means by which the postal operator can fulfil its delivery commitment. This document deals with physical postal addresses and not with others like email addresses. Traditionally,
33、 postal operators have been highly flexible with regard to the manner in which postal items can be addressed: any form and content of address was acceptable as long as it permitted sufficiently unambiguous determination of the delivery point. Even today, many postal services pride themselves on thei
34、r ability, using staff intelligence and local demographic knowledge, to deliver postal items carrying incomplete or unusual address representations. However, increasing volumes and labour cost rates mean that automation became not only economic, but also essential a long time ago. As a result, it ha
35、s become more and more vital to ensure that the vast majority of postal items are addressed in a way which can be processed automatically, without risk of misinterpretation. Today, the vast majority of postal items carry printed addresses which are extracted from computer databases. Such databases n
36、eed to be maintained in the face of population mobility, creation and suppression of delivery points and changes in their specification such as renaming of streets, renumbering of properties, etc. Moreover, there is a growing tendency for companies to exchange or trade address data and, in the conte
37、xt of the European Single Market, for companies in one country to hold address data of organisations and individuals in other countries, which might use different approaches to the structuring of printed addresses. In this context, the UPU Postal Operations Councils POST*Code Project Team charged it
38、s sub-project team 2 to develop a standard, covering the definition of address components and postal address templates. This standard, International Postal Address Components and Templates, is the result of this development. 4)Terms in bold are defined either in Clause 3, Terms and Definitions or Cl
39、ause 5, Postal Address Components. BS EN 14142-1:2011EN 14142-1:2011 (E) 6 1 Scope This standard provides a dictionary of the possible5)components of postal addresses, together with examples of and constraints on their use. This standard This standard defines three hierarchical levels of postal addr
40、ess component: segments, such as addressee specification, which correspond to major logical portions of a postal address; constructs, such as organisation identification, which group elements within segments into units which are meaningful for human interpretation; elements, such as organisation nam
41、e or legal status, which correspond to the lowest level of constructs, i.e. those which are not themselves made up of subordinate elements, though they may be sub-divided for technical purposes. To cover multiple occurrences and locations of elements in an address, and to be able where necessary to
42、work with sub-divisions of element content, the standard defines a fourth level: element sub-types, such as door type or door indicator, representing parts of conceptual elements, such as door, for database storage or to facilitate presentation, or representing multiple instances of conceptual eleme
43、nts for use in defining address element structures or templates. NOTE The underlying point is that elements are conceptual whereas sub-types are defined to meet technical needs such as template construction, rendition requirements, accurate representation of address instances, and matching to postal
44、 database fields. This standard further provides a methodology for the specification of postal address templates, which stipulate how a postal address is to be written, including the order in which postal address elements are to appear, required and optional elements, and the presentation or renditi
45、on of the elements, subject to constraints on the space available for that task. Languages suitable for human comprehension and computer processing of postal address templates are defined and described. It also defines a number of useful terms, such as delivery address, forwarding address, mailee an
46、d mail originator. By providing a standard dictionary of postal address components, this standard is expected to greatly facilitate the formal description of actual address representations and the definition of procedures for mapping between them. In practice, many address representations, whether i
47、n computer databases, in electronic messages or in printed or written form, combine several of the postal address components defined herein into single fields or lines.6)Considerable intelligence may be required in mapping between different representations, particularly where these are subject to a
48、degree of ambiguity.7)5)Note that an individual postal address, or a class of postal addresses (such as the addresses used in a given country) may require only a subset of the possible components. For example, Irish postal addresses do not at this time include postcodes. 6)Note that practical databa
49、ses (and even printed addresses) may also combine postal address components, as defined herein, with other relevant data. For example, a companys customer database may include a customer reference or identification number along with each customers address. Such additional data are not considered, for the purpose of this standard, as part of the address, but they obviously need to be taken into account in the design of the database and the applications which use it. 7)For example, in the individual name John Smith, it i
