April 26, 2012

IMb™ Services Update

PostalOne! ^® Major Upgrade Outage - The major database technology upgrade will be completed during an extended maintenance window from 6 p.m. CDT on Saturday, April 28, 2012, through 6 p.m. CDT on Sunday, April 29, 2012.

During the outage, PostalOne! and Mail.XML^® will be unavailable, including FAST^® and eDOC Web Services.

Saturday, May 5, 2012 through Sunday, May 6, 2012 should be considered the contingency weekend for the April 28-29 outage if issues result in a rescheduled upgrade.

PostalOne! TEM Major Upgrade Outage - The major database technology upgrade will be completed on the Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) during an extended maintenance window from 4 p.m. CDT Saturday, May 5, 2012, through 8 a.m. CDT Sunday, May 6, 2012.

Business Customer Gateway Outage - The Business Customer Gateway upgrade to Oracle 11 will be deployed to the Production environment on Sunday, May 6, 2012, from 4:00 am to 8:00 am CDT during the scheduled maintenance window.  During this upgrade, all USPS services accessed through the Business Customer Gateway, including PostalOne!, FAST, Mailer ID and Program Registration will not be available.