June 10, 2011

IMb™ Services Update

PostalOne! ^® Release 27.0 and FAST^® Release 17.0 will deploy to production on Sunday, June 26, 2011. The PostalOne! production environment will be unavailable from 9 p.m. CDT on June 25, 2011, through 8 a.m. CDT on June 26, 2011. The Facility Access and Tracking (FAST) production system will be unavailable from 4 a.m. CDT through 8 a.m. CDT on Sunday, June 26, 2011. FAST Webservices cannot be processed during the PostalOne! outage.

PostalOne! Release 27.0 and FAST Release 17.0 will deploy to the Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) on Monday, June 27, 2011. The PostalOne! TEM will be unavailable on Monday, June 27, 2011, from 4 a.m. CDT through 12 Noon CDT. The FAST TEM will be unavailable on Monday, June 27, 2011, from 8 a.m. CDT through 12 Noon CDT.

Additional information for the PostalOne! release is available on RIBBS^®.

PostalOne! Release 27.0 Webinars: Three webinars for customers have been scheduled. Release 27 enhancements include changes to Mail.dat^® and Mail.XML^®, a new Full-Service report and improvements made to report generation and manifest processing.

The webinars will be held on the following dates:

Wednesday June 22, 2011 10 a.m. EDT

Thursday June 23, 2011 2 p.m. EDT

Tuesday June 28, 2011 2 p.m. EDT

Additional information on registering for the webinars will be posted on RIBBS on June 14, 2011.