July 27, 2012

IMb™ Services Update

Reminder:  PostalOne!^® Outage — An Oracle^® database upgrade for PostalOne! ^® Production and the Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) will be completed during an extended maintenance window from 6 p.m. Saturday, August 4, 2012, through noon CDT Sunday, August 5, 2012. During this outage, PostalOne!, Mail.dat^® and Mail.XML^® will be unavailable, including FAST^® and eDOC Web Services.

Reminder:  FAST Deployment — FAST Oracle 11 upgrade will be deployed to the Production environment effective Sunday, August 5, 2012. The FAST Online Application and Web Services messaging will not be available during the 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT deployment window on Sunday, August 5, 2012. All FAST Web Services messages received during this time will be queued and processed after deployment is completed. For questions or requests for additional information, contact the FAST Help Desk (FAST@usps.gov or 1-877-569-6614).