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BSI PD CEN/TS 16735:2015

BSI PD CEN/TS 16735:2015

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Postal services. Extensible Common Structure and Representation for Postal Rates. EPR

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This Technical Specification defines a uniform structure and meaning for the information that fully represents postal rates for a broad variety of postal products in all mail categories. The postal rates definition is viewed as an important interface between posts and their customers and as such will benefit from standardization. Such representation of postal rates allows automated systems to uniformly use postal rates as they are introduced for new products or updated for existing postal products by postal operators. A postal rate file (PRF) is an XML document, which fully describes postal products rates. It contains all necessary and sufficient information for both postal operators and their customers to efficiently create, respectively acquire, update and process postal product rates. The structure, types and constraints of XML elements in an XML document are defined by an XML schema. The Extensible Postal Rates (EPR) schema is the XML schema that governs Postal Rate Files.

This Technical Specification contains a complete description of the EPR schema, its hierarchical structure, information types and semantics of its elements.

This Technical Specification neither defines nor constraints how postal rates are created by postal operators but rather provide a powerful and flexible tool that supports efficient rates definition, management and distribution.

This Technical Specification does not define communication protocols that can be used by posts to distribute postal rates files to their customers. Suitable communication protocols are typically well known and already standardized (for example: Web Services, File Transport Protocol, email, etc.). The standard also does not define valuation of postal products as applied by postal operators and their customers.

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PDF Pages PDF Title
4 Contents Page
6 Foreword
7 Introduction
10 Figure 1 — Manual postal rates management and distribution process
11 Figure 2 — Automated postal rates management and distribution process
12 1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
15 4 Symbols and abbreviations
5 General Concepts
5.1 Extensible Common Structure and Representation for Postal Rates (EPR)
16 Figure 3 — Interaction between mailers and postal operator
17 Figure 4 — Overall rate computation process
18 Figure 5 — Postal rate computation process
20 5.2 Using EPR for design, communication and processing of Postal Rates
5.3 Time
21 6 EPR XML Schema
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Structure of EPR Type
6.2.1 General
25 Figure 6 — Structure of the PostalRate Type
26 6.2.2 EPR attributes
6.2.2.1 Introduction
Figure 7 — EPR attributes
6.2.2.2 documentExpirationDate
6.2.2.3 documentId
27 6.2.2.4 dataIntegrityInformation
6.2.2.5 dataIntegrityInfoAlgorithm
6.2.2.6 dateStamp
6.2.2.7 Language
6.3 Dimensional weight
28 Figure 8 — Structure of DimensionalWeight element
Figure 9 — Inputs and output of dimensional weight calculation algorithm
29 6.4 Calculated weight
6.4.1 General
Figure 10 — Structure of CalculatedWeight element
Figure 11 — Inputs and output of calculated weight calculation algorithm
30 6.4.2 Weight rounding
Figure 12 — Structure of WeightRounding element
Figure 13 — Inputs and output of weight rounding calculation algorithm
31 6.5 Zone or Distance
Figure 14 — Structure of ZoneOrDistance element
Figure 15 — Inputs and output of zone/distance determination algorithm
32 Figure 16 — Example of determination of zone code from the product_key, origin and destination locations (UPS)
Figure 17 — Example of determination of zone code from the origin and destination locations (USPS)
6.6 Calculated distance
33 Figure 18 — Structure of CalculatedDistance element
Figure 19 — Inputs and output of zone/distance selection algorithm
6.7 Base amount
6.7.1 General
34 Figure 20 — Structure of BaseAmount element
Figure 21 — Inputs and output of base amount calculation algorithm
35 Figure 22 — Example of base amount calculation using product key input (Royal Mail)
36 Figure 23 — Example of base amount data table (USPS)
37 6.7.2 Amount rounding
Figure 24 — Structure of AmountRounding element
Figure 25 — Inputs and output of base amount rounding calculation algorithm
38 6.8 Distance and weight based fees
Figure 26 — Structure of DistanceAndWeightFees element
Figure 27 — Inputs and output of distance and weight fees calculation algorithm
39 6.9 Dimension-based fees
Figure 28 — Structure of DimensionFees element
Figure 29 — Inputs and output of dimension-based fees calculation algorithm
40 6.10 Value-based fees
Figure 30 — Structure of ValueFees element
Figure 31 — Inputs and output of value-based fee calculation algorithm
41 6.11 Quantity-based fees
Figure 32 — Structure of QuantityFees element
42 Figure 33 — Inputs and output of quantity-based fee calculation algorithm
6.12 Amount-based fees
Figure 34 — Structure of AmountFees element
43 Figure 35 — Inputs and output of amount-based fee calculation algorithm
6.13 Date-based fees
Figure 36 — Structure of DateFees element
44 Figure 37 — Inputs and output of date/time-based fee calculation algorithm
6.14 Value added fees
Figure 38 — Structure of ValueAddedFees element
45 Figure 39 — Inputs and output of value-added fee calculation algorithm
6.15 Generic fees
Figure 40 — Structure of GenericFees element
46 Figure 41 — Inputs and output of generic fee calculation algorithm
6.16 Taxes
Figure 42 — Structure of Taxes element
47 Figure 43 — Inputs and output of tax calculation algorithm
6.17 Customs charges
Figure 44 —Structure of CustomCharges element
48 Figure 45 — Inputs and output of customs charges calculation algorithm
6.18 EPR validity
Figure 46 — Structure of RatesValidityPeriod element
49 6.19 Terms and agreements
Figure 47 — Structure of TermsAndAgreements element
6.20 Information for human consumption
50 Figure 48 — Structure of InfoForHumanConsumption element
6.21 Foundation types
6.21.1 Table2D type
51 Figure 49 — Structure of Table2D type – top level
52 Figure 50 — Structure of Table2D type – detailed
53 6.21.2 RowType type
Figure 51 — Structure of RowType type
6.21.3 DataElementType type
Figure 52 — Structure of DataElementType type
54 6.21.4 AlgorithmAndValue type
Figure 53 —Structure of AlgorithmAndValue type
6.21.5 TimePeriodType type
55 Figure 54 — Structure of TimePeriod type
6.21.6 UpuDate type
6.21.7 DataIntegrityInfoAlgorithm type
6.21.8 DataIntegrityInfoAlgorithmEnum enumeration
56 6.21.9 CodeListType type
57 Annex A (informative) Example of EPR definition file – La Poste COLISSIMO OUTRE-MER
60 Annex B (informative) Example of EPR definition file – USPS First Class Single Piece
64 Annex C (informative) Example of XML schema for base amount calculation using product key input
69 Annex D (informative) EPR schema files
77 Annex E (informative) Intellectual property
79 Bibliography

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