As the U.S. member body to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ANSI seeks comments by May 16 on a proposal for a new field of technical activity on courier services.
SAC, the ISO member for China, submitted to ISO a proposal, with the following scope statement:
The standardization of operations, services, and management in the completion of express delivery services from the sender to the addressee. The term "express delivery" refers to the delivery activities completed by express delivery companies within the agreed time limits, primarily involving the delivery of letters and parcels to consumers to meet their delivery service needs. It excludes universal postal service obligations, postal products, and Express Mail Service, or EMS.
It includes but is not limited to:
The scope of the proposal does not cover the standardization covered by ISO/TC 122, Packaging, ISO/TC 315, Cold chain logistics, ISO/TC 321, Transaction assurance in E-commerce, and ISO/TC 344, Innovative logistics.
Note 1: Letter items include letters, correspondence, documents, certificates, securities, commercial contracts, customs declaration documents and other items sent in the form of a letter.
Note 2: Parcel items include personal belongings, gifts, online shopping products, items sold by individuals, government-apportioned supplies in emergency situations, test samples, and items sold by businesses.
Please note that the ISO Technical Management Board recently agreed that if ISO members support this proposal and wish for ISO to develop standards in this field, the work will be assigned to ISO/TC 344, Innovative logistics, rather than form a new ISO technical committee.
Read the proposal and submit comments to Steven Cornish, ANSI senior director of international policy and strategy, at [email protected] by close of business on Friday, May 16. All input ANSI receives will be used to develop the ANSI representative input to the ISO Technical Management Board.
