April 14, 2011

IMb™ Services Update — PostalOne! Release 26.1 Reminder

PostalOne ^®  Release 26.1 and FAST Release 16.0 will deploy to production Sunday, April 17, 2011. The PostalOne! ^® production environment will be unavailable from 12:01 a.m. through 8 a.m. CDT and the Facility Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST^®) production system will be unavailable from 4 a.m. through 8 a.m. CDT on Sunday, April 17. FAST Webservices can not be processed during the PostalOne! outage.

PostalOne! Release 26.1 and FAST Release 16.0 will deploy to the Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) on Monday April 18, 2011. TEM will be unavailable from 4 a.m. through noon CDT and the FAST TEM system will be unavailable from 8 a.m. through noon CDT on Monday, April 18.

PostalOne! Release 26.1 will support the Mailing Services price change, as well as:

• First-Class Mail^® commercial plus parcels
• Parcel Select^® Regional Ground
• Hold for Pick-Up service for Priority Mail^®, First-Class Mail parcels and Parcel Select (bar-coded non-presort only).

PostalOne! Release 26.1 Webinars:  Three webinars for customers have been scheduled to cover price changes, FAST enhancements, and new validations for Mail.dat^® and Mail.XML^® files. Attendees can log on to a webinar 30 minutes before the start time on the day of the webinar. Dates, times and log on information for the webinars are:

Thursday April 14, 2011          10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EDT

Event Number:                     399711266

Event Address for attendees:  http://usps.webex.com/onstage/g.php?d=399711266&t=a

Thursday, April 14, 2011         2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT

Event Number:                     391477079

Event Address for attendees:  http://usps.webex.com//onstage/g.php?d=391477079&t=a

Tuesday, April 19, 2011          2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT

Event Number:                      399939427

Event Address for attendees:  https://usps.webex.com/onstage/g.php?d=399930427&t=a