Skip top navigation
USPS.com home. The profile of an eagle's head adjoining the words United States Postal Service are the two elements that are combined to form the corporate signature. Postal Explorer

Pricing & Classification DMM Advisory

Message board to keep postal customers informed of changes to mailing standards, services, and prices.
Return to Message board

October 18, 2013

IMb™ Services Update

Reminder:  PostalOne!® Release 36.0.0 Deployment — scheduled for October 20, 2013, will require an extended maintenance window to complete all software updates. There will be a PostalOne! outage from 12 midnight through 9 a.m. CT, Sunday, October 20, 2013. A mandatory Mail.dat® client download will be available immediately following the software update. Release notes for PostalOne! Release 36.0 can be found on RIBBS by clicking on Major/Minor Release Schedule/ 2013 Releases in the left-hand navigation bar or by going directly to Full Service 2013 Releases

PostalOne! Release 36.0 Deployment to Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) — will occur on Monday, October 21, 2013, and PostalOne! TEM will be unavailable from 5:30 a.m. through 3 p.m. CT.

Business Customer Gateway (BCG)/eAdmin Release 7.0 — will be deployed to Production on Sunday, October 27, 2013, from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT. The release will be completed in a rolling fashion with no planned outages. This release will include additional enhancements to the BCG application.

Release Notes for Business Customer Gateway/eAdmin will be provided prior to deployment.

Full-Service Intelligent Mail® October Webinar Schedule

Effective January 26, 2014, the use of Full-Service Intelligent Mail® is required to qualify for automation prices for First-Class Mail® postcards, letters, and flats, Standard Mail® letters and flats, Periodicals letters and flats and Bound Printed Matter flats.

The Postal Service™ is offering a series of webinars that is designed to assist mailers with participation in Full-Service Intelligent Mail. To join the webinars, click on the links below no more than 15 minutes before the start of the webinar. Please visit RIBBS/Intelligent Mail Services/Education for complete information about Full-Service Intelligent Mail, these webinars, updates, and links to webinar recordings and presentations.

Title: The Business Customer Gateway

Date: October 24, 2013

Time: 1:30 p.m. EDT

Log on by clicking: https://usps.webex.com/usps/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=997532782

Audio: (877) 312-7128 ID: 60096159

Title: Full-Service Feedback

Date: October 31, 2013

Time: 1:30 p.m. EDT

Log on by clicking: https://usps.webex.com/usps/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=994045529

Audio: (877) 312-7128 ID: 60093112

Full- Service Intelligent Mail Open Line Call

A Full-Service Intelligent Mail “Open Line” is scheduled for every Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT. USPS® representatives will be online to answer any questions related to Full-Service Intelligent Mail. To join the call, click on the link no more than 15 minutes before the start of the call.

Title: Open Line Call

Date: Every Wednesday

Time: 2 p.m. EDT

Log on by clicking: http://meetingplace4.usps.gov/join.asp?0602495

Audio: (866) 966-6305 ID: 0602495