What is PD CEN/TS 17523 about?
PD CEN/TS 17523 is an international standard on postal services — packing for boxable items to prevent the production of packaging waste and promote reuse.
PD CEN/TS 17523 covers physical properties and characteristics for the packaging for small and lightweight postal items to be delivered into the consumer’s letterbox. It covers the main design features for the packaging of letter boxable postal items, notably the sizes and stacking as well as postal and environmental requirements.
PD CEN/TS 17523 focuses on reducing packaging material and supporting advanced automation for packaging.
Who is PD CEN/TS 17523 for?
PD CEN/TS 17523 on postal services — packaging for boxable items is useful for:
- Postal services
- E-retailers
- Packaging companies
- Package designers
- Consumers, who ship goods privately sold
Why should you use PD CEN/TS 17523?
Ecommerce led to raising volumes of commercial postal items. Postal items containing documents are letters, whereas postal items containing goods are parcels or small packets.
PD CEN/TS 17523 provides you with the characteristics, physical properties, stacking requirements, processing, packaging material for small and lightweight items.
PD CEN/TS 17523 addresses e-commerce related delivery needs and challenges. PD CEN/TS 17523 provides you with guidance for large, medium, and small online merchants, assists in sending small and lightweight items as boxable postal items to the consumer’s letterbox, using existing letter mail networks, with the advantage of a successful first delivery attempt hence reducing packaging material, reducing both operational and shipping costs, saving storage space, cutting labour cost and order administration, and significantly cutting assembly and packing times.