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1UPU Letter Post Regulation Swiss Post proposal to
amend the Article RL115-1 Characteristics of
postage stamps and postal prepayment or franking
impressions UPU Physical Encoding Group (PEG)
2005.1 Meeting Brussels, 09 March 2005 Jakob
Kirchmeier Product Manager Standard
Mail kirchmeierj_at_swisspost.com
2UPU Letter Post Regulation Reason for the
Proposal (Reminder)
- New franking technologies such as franking
machines, PC franking or IT franking set new
standards for the postal administrations e.g. - - STAMPIT from Deutsche Post AG
- - EasyStamp from Royal TPG Post BV
- - WebStamp from Swiss Post
- New postal franking impressions for domestic and
international letter-post items will not only be
printed on envelope but also on label and
document
- mostly in the panel / window of the envelope
(above the - address) and not only as usual on the top
right-hand part - of the envelope.
3UPU Letter Post Regulation Historical (Reminder)
- Such franking impressions are sometimes wrongly
taxed in the destination country by the receiving
postal administration, which dont notice the
franking impression in the panel/window of the
envelope and therefore consider in good
conscience that the letter-post items are not
franked, when Terminal Dues already have been
paid for the distribution. - After having informed the postal administrations
about wrong taxation in the International Bureau
Circular 295 from 19 August 2002 without
significant results, Swiss Post submitted a new
proposal to PostEurop for the next UPU Congress,
in order to modify the Article RL115-1 of the UPU
Letter Post Regulation. - Deutsche Post AG also informed the postal
administrations in the International Bureau
Circular 405 from 24 November 2003 about new
postal franking impressions.
4UPU Letter Post Regulation Swiss Post proposal
- Article RL115-1
- Characteristics of postage stamps and postal
prepayment - or franking impressions
Added new Paragraph 3.1bis Franking impressions
obtained from an electronic printing process may
be applied above the field of the address field,
regardless of the location of the address. Such
franking impressions may be applied directly on
the envelop or inside the envelope window. The
provisions of paragraph 3.1 shall apply to this
type of impression.
5UPU Letter Post RegulationFirst example franking
impression (Swiss Post)
6UPU Letter Post Regulation Further examples (from
different countries)
7UPU Letter Post Regulation Decision history
International Affairs Task Force (IATF) Meeting
of 16 December 2003 in Brussels Proposals studied
by the Letter Post Working Group (LPWG)
8UPU Letter Post Regulation Misunderstanding
after presentation PEG June 11,2004
- The key issue of the proposal is to amend the
Article RL115-1 in order to avoid wrong taxation
in the destination and double taxation of the
terminal dues for ranking impressions above the
address. - The 2D symbols shown on several examples would
not have to appear. Unfortunately the result is
that the focus is now on this symbol and on Swiss
Post only and not any more on the placement of
the franking impression.
9UPU Letter Post Regulation
- 25.115.1 Bucharest Congress proposal that
require discussion by the Standards Boards SB
before discussion by Committee1 - Decisions expected
- Take note of the documents and examine the
proposal provided in order to provide comments
Committtee 1
10UPU Letter Post RegulationRequest from Swiss
Post to the PEG
- To focus on the franking impression with an over
all view and not consentrating on the 2D-Barcode.
Since Swiss Post agreed that it will do
everything to be conform with the UPU S28 as soon
as possible. - The franking impression does not need necessarily
a 2D-Barcode - To vote in favor to accept this proposal 25.115.1
11UPU Letter Post Regulation Opportunities
(Reminder)
- Postal administrations will answer customer needs
on new technologies - Postal administrations will act on the global
market as innovators - Benchmarking between postal administrations will
be reinforced on this specific segment - UPU Regulation will be officially set up
- Wrong taxations will quickly disappear between
postal administrations for such postal franking
impressions.
12UPU Letter Post Regulation Open discussion