CEN/TS 15844-3:2010
(Main)Postal services - ID-tagging of letter mail items - Part 3: BNB-62 encoding specification
Postal services - ID-tagging of letter mail items - Part 3: BNB-62 encoding specification
This part of the Technical Specification defines the representation of ID-tags as a 62-position bar-no-bar code (BNB-62) printed in fluorescent ink in area R1 on the reverse side of items.
BNB-62 encoding is one of two encoding specifications supported by this Technical Specification ) for the printing of ID-tags in area R1, the other being BNB-78, which is specified in CEN/TS 15844-2.
NOTE 1 Representation in the form of a 4-state code printed on the front of the item is covered in CEN/TS 15844-4 for flats and CEN/TS 15844-5 for small letters.
BNB-62 encoding is authorised for use only by three issuers: An Post (Ireland), Canada Post and USPS. It should be encountered, on incoming items, only on mail items which originated in Canada, Ireland or the United States. Other issuers wishing to apply ID-tags in area R1 are required to use the BNB-78 encoding defined in CEN/TS 15844-2.
NOTE 2 ID-tags encoded in area R1 are required by article RL 123 of the UPU Letter Post Regulations [2] to be compliant with UPU standard S18 - and by this with the related CEN/TS 15844. This supports only two encodings in area R1, namely BNB-78 as defined in CEN/TS 15844-2 and BNB-62 as defined herein. The latter is authorised for continued use only by the three issuers mentioned above. Where ID-tags are used, and are applied in area R1 on the reverse side of letter mail items of size up to and including C5, the use of BNB-78 encoding is mandatory for all other issuers.
NOTE 3 BNB-62 encoding is not considered suitable for use on flats. CEN/TS 15844-4 defines a 4-state encoding which may be used for this purpose.
Postalische Dienstleistungen – ID-Kennzeichnung von Briefsendungen – Teil 3: Festlegung der BNB-62-Codierung
Der vorliegende Teil der Norm legt die Darstellung von ID-Kennzeichen als 62-stelligen Strich-Zwischenraum-Strichcode (BNB 62) fest, der mit fluoreszierender Druckfarbe im Bereich R1 auf die Rückseite von Sendun¬gen gedruckt wird.
Die Codierung BNB 62 ist eine der beiden Codierungsspezifikationen, die von der vorliegenden Norm ) für das Drucken von ID-Kennzeichen im Bereich R1 unterstützt werden; die andere Codierung ist BNB 78, die im Teil B definiert ist.
ANMERKUNG 1 Die Darstellung in Form eines 4 State-Codes, der auf die Vorderseite der Sendung gedruckt wird, wird in S18d behandelt.
Zur Anwendung der Codierung BNB 62 sind nur drei Herausgeber berechtigt: An Post (Irland), Canada Post und United States Postal Service (USPS). Es sollte nur auf eingehenden Briefsendungen aus Kanada, Irland oder den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika anzutreffen sein. Andere Herausgeber, die ID-Kennzeichen im Bereich R1 anbringen wollen, müssen die in prCEN/TS 15844 2 festgelegte Codierung BNB 78 benutzen.
ANMERKUNG 2 ID-Kennzeichen, die im Bereich R1 codiert werden, müssen S18 entsprechen (siehe UPU-Norm S19 und Artikel RE 204 des Letter Post Manual). Mit Wirkung vom 1. April 2003 werden nur zwei Codierungen im Bereich R1 unterstützt, und zwar die in prCEN/TS 15844 2 definierte Codierung BNB 78 und die im vorliegenden Dokument definierte Codierung BNB 62. Die letztgenannte Codierung darf nur von den drei angegebenen Herausgebern weiter verwendet werden. Wenn ID-Kennzeichen verwendet und im Bereich R1 auf der Rückseite von Briefsendungen bis einschließlich Größe C5 angebracht werden, ist für alle anderen Herausgeber ab dem 1. April 2003 die Anwendung der Codierung BNB 78 zwingend vorgeschrieben.
ANMERKUNG 3 Die Codierung BNB 62 ist nicht für die Anwendung auf Großbriefen geeignet. S18d definiert für diese Zwecke eine 4 State-Codierung.
Traitement automatisé des envois postaux - Chronomarquage des envois postaux - Partie 3: Spécification de codage en BNB (Bar No Bar)- 62 caractères
Poštne storitve - Označevanje poštnih pošiljk z identifikacijsko številko - Specifikacija kodiranja BNB-62
Ta del tehnične specifikacije določa prikaz identifikacijske številke v obliki 62-mestne kode BNB-62, ki je natisnjena s fluorescentnim črnilom na območju R1 na hrbtni strani pošiljk. Kodiranje BNB-62 je ena od dveh specifikacij kodiranja za tiskanje identifikacijskih številk na območju R1, ki ju podpira ta tehnična specifikacija 3); druga specifikacija je BNB-78, ki jo določa standard CEN/TS 15844-2. OPOMBA 1: Prikaz v obliki 4-statusne črtne kode, natisnjene na sprednji strani navadnih pisem, obravnavata standarda CEN/TS 15844-4 za večja pisma in CEN/TS 15844-5 za navadna pisma. Kodiranje BNB-62 lahko uporabljajo le trije izdajatelji: An Post (Irska), Canada Post in USPS. Pojavlja se lahko le na dohodnih poštnih pošiljkah iz Kanade, Irske ali Združenih držav Amerike. Drugi izdajatelji, ki želijo uporabiti identifikacijske številke na območju R1, morajo uporabljati kodiranje BNB-78, določeno v standardu CEN/TS 15844-2. OPOMBA 2: Identifikacijske številke, ki se nahajajo na območju R1, morajo biti po členu RL 123 Pravilnika o pisemski pošti UPU [2] v skladu s standardom UPU S18 – in s tem s standardom CEN/TS 15844. To podpira le dve kodiranji na območju R1, zlasti BNB-78, kot je določen v standardu CEN/TS 15844-2, in BNB-62, kot je določen v tej specifikaciji. Slednjega lahko še naprej uporabljajo le zgoraj navedeni trije izdajatelji. Če se identifikacijske številke uporabljajo na območju R1 na hrbtni strani poštne pošiljke do vključno velikosti C5, je uporaba kodiranja BNB-78 obvezna za vse ostale izdajatelje. OPOMBA 3: Kodiranje BNB-62 ni ustrezno za večja pisma. Standard CEN/TS 15844-4 določa
4-statusno črtno kodo, ki se lahko uporablja za ta namen.
General Information
Standards Content (Sample)
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-maj-2013
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Postal services - ID-tagging of letter mail items - BNB-62 encoding specification
Postalische Dienstleistungen - Identkennzeichnung von Briefsendungen - Teil 3:
Festlegung der BNB-62 Kodierung
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/TS 15844-3:2010
ICS:
03.240 Poštne storitve Postal services
35.040 Nabori znakov in kodiranje Character sets and
informacij information coding
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
CEN/TS 15844-3
SPÉCIFICATION TECHNIQUE
TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION
December 2010
ICS 03.240
English Version
Postal services - ID-tagging of letter mail items - Part 3: BNB-62
encoding specification
Traitement automatisé des envois postaux - Postalische Dienstleistungen - ID-Kennzeichnung von
Chronomarquage des envois postaux - Partie 3: Briefsendungen - Teil 3: Festlegung der BNB-62-Codierung
Spécification de codage en BNB (Bar No Bar)- 62
caractères
This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 12 January 2009 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 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 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, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
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worldwide for CEN national Members.
Contents Page
Foreword .3
Introduction .4
1 Scope .5
2 Normative references .5
3 Terms and definitions .5
4 Symbols and abbreviations .5
5 Usage limitations – Limited issuance .5
6 Value range limitations .6
7 Encoding specification .7
7.1 Data to be encoded .7
7.2 Calculation of the error detection and correction bits.9
7.3 Construction of the bar code to be printed on the Item . 10
8 Printing of the bar code . 11
8.1 Optical characteristics of the ink . 11
8.2 Bar code characteristics . 11
9 Reading and interpretation of BNB-62 bar codes . 12
9.1 Discrimination from other bar codes . 12
9.2 Fully-read bar codes . 13
9.3 Partially read bar codes . 13
9.4 Checking data field values . 13
9.5 Manual interpretation of bar codes . 15
10 Conversion to the message and binary representations . 15
Annex A (informative) Error detection and correction algorithms . 18
A.1 Introduction . 18
A.2 Calculation of error control bars . 18
A.3 Checking the read value for errors . 18
A.4 Correcting an erroneous bar code . 19
Annex B (informative) S18 ID-tag 62-position BNB bar code template . 20
Bibliography . 21
Foreword
This document (CEN/TS 15844-3:2010) 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. 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.
1)
This document, CEN/TS 15844-3, is the CEN equivalent of UPU standard S18c-6. 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.
2)
The UPU’s contribution to the document was made, by the UPU Standards Board and its sub-groups, in
accordance with the rules given in Part V of the "General information on UPU standards".
This document forms Part 3 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, Part 1.
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, 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 the United Kingdom.
1)
The Universal 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 all 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 communication 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 UPU's Standards Board develops and maintains a growing number of standards 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 coherent
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 site (www.upu.int).
Introduction
A general introduction to all parts of the Technical Specification is provided in CEN/TS 15844-1. This part
deals only with the encoding of ID-tags in the form of a 62-position bar-no-bar code, BNB-62, printed on the
reverse side of items, in area R1, using fluorescent ink. It is arranged under six main headings:
Usage limitations – limited issuance: explains that only designated issuers may apply BNB-62 ID-tags in
accordance with this specification, though any organisation with appropriate equipment may read and use
them;
Value range limitations: defines limitations on the values of data elements used in ID-tags which are to be
represented on items in the form of a BNB-62 bar code;
Encoding specification: specifies the construction of a 62-position bar-no-bar code from ID-tag data
elements;
Printing of the bar code: to allow the association of computer data with a physical item, the ID-tag is
printed on the item itself. This clause defines required ink and printing parameters;
Reading and interpretation of BNB-62 bar codes: specifies the validation and error correction requirements
associated with the reading of ID-tags represented using BNB-62 bar codes;
Conversion to the message and binary representations: describes the correspondence between BNB-62
representation and the binary and message interchange representations defined in CEN/TS 15844-1.
The above definition is supported by an informative annex:
S18 ID-tag 62-position BNB bar code template: provides a template which may be used for manual
decoding of the data elements in printed BNB-62 representations of an ID-tag. Such manual decoding
should be used with caution since, unless the complete bar code is read and processed through the
appropriate error detection/correction algorithm, there is no certainty that the value obtained has been
read correctly.
1 Scope
This part of the Technical Specification defines the representation of ID-tags as a 62-position bar-no-bar code
(BNB-62) printed in fluorescent ink in area R1 on the reverse side of items.
)
BNB-62 encoding is one of two encoding specifications supported by this Technical Specification for the
printing of ID-tags in area R1, the other being BNB-78, which is specified in CEN/TS 15844-2.
NOTE 1 Representation in the form of a 4-state code printed on the front of the item is covered in CEN/TS 15844-4 for
flats and CEN/TS 15844-5 for small letters.
BNB-62 encoding is authorised for use only by three issuers: An Post (Ireland), Canada Post and USPS. It
should be encountered, on incoming items, only on mail items which originated in Canada, Ireland or the
United States. Other issuers wishing to apply ID-tags in area R1 are required to use the BNB-78 encoding
defined in CEN/TS 15844-2.
NOTE 2 ID-tags encoded in area R1 are required by article RL 123 of the UPU Letter Post Regulations [2] to be
compliant with UPU standard S18 – and by this with the related CEN/TS 15844. This supports only two encodings in area
R1, namely BNB-78 as defined in CEN/TS 15844-2 and BNB-62 as defined herein. The latter is authorised for continued
use only by the three issuers mentioned above. Where ID-tags are used, and are applied in area R1 on the reverse side of
letter mail items of size up to and including C5, the use of BNB-78 encoding is mandatory for all other issuers.
NOTE 3 BNB-62 encoding is not considered suitable for use on flats. CEN/TS 15844-4 defines a 4-state encoding
which may be used for this purpose.
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 referenced
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
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in CEN/TS 15844-1:2010 apply.
4 Symbols and abbreviations
See CEN/TS15844-1:2010, Postal services — ID-tagging of letter mail items — Part 1: ID-tag structure,
message and binary.
5 Usage limitations – Limited issu
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