October 21, 2011

IMb™ Services Update

PostalOne!^®Release 28.0 and FAST^® Release 18.0: The scheduled maintenance windows on Sunday, October 23 and Sunday, October 30, 2011, will not be required to prepare for PostalOne!^® Release 28.0 deployment and a PostalOne! outage will not be scheduled on those days.

The deployment of PostalOne! Release 28.0 on Sunday, November 6, 2011, will require an extended maintenance window from 10 p.m. CDT on Saturday, November 5 through 8 a.m. CDT Sunday, November 6, 2011. The PostalOne! application and Web Services and Facility Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST^®) Web Services will be unavailable during this time. The FAST on-line application will be unavailable from 3 a.m. through 8 a.m. CDT on Sunday, November 6, 2011.

PostalOne! Release 28.0 and FAST Release 18.0 will deploy to the Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) on Monday, November 7, 2011. During the deployment, the PostalOne! TEM will be unavailable from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. CDT and the FAST TEM will be unavailable from 8 a.m. through 12 Noon CDT.

PostalOne! Release 28.0 Webinars: Informational webinars on Release 28 will be held for mailers on November 2, 3, and 8. Complete webinar information, including times and log on information, will be posted on RIBBs^® under Intelligent Mail Services.