1 Scope
This Technical Report provides the results of a feasibility study to determine whether
a European Standard for the measurement of incorrect delivery could be developed.
CEN/TC331 decided a European Standard was not feasible but that the results should
be kept and the report transferred into this Technical Report.
NOTE 1 At the end of 2011, TC/331/WG1 established Project Team F to research the measurement
of incorrect delivery in accordance with the tender “RENEWED open call for project
team experts for the execution of the work called for in the grant agreement SA/CEN/ENTR/EFTA/428/2009-06 Postal
Services - Elaboration and adoption of standards documents in the EU and EFTA”. The
Working Plan of PT F was approved at the plenary meeting of CEN/TC 331 in December
2011.
NOTE 2 According to the Working plan, PT-F presented to the TC/331/WG1 a first report at
the meeting in Belgrade in March 2012. PT-F expressed the opinion that the development
of a standard was not feasible and that they suspected that a standardization document
would not produce the expected results, that is a reduction in the number of incorrectly
delivered postal items. PT-F highlighted that such a measurement system had no capability
to recognize and record when a real event occurred (only when the sender and/or the
receiver submitted a complaint), and therefore it will be unreliable. PT-F also mentioned
the difficulty in finding existing and feasible measurement methods which would reliably
measure such r...