Improving the Drop Shipment Process Update

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Improving the Drop Shipment Process Update

• MTAC Workgroup 87
• Washington DC August 18

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National Deployment

• FAST deployment began the week of July 4th.

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Deployment Status

• Number of active facilities 128
• Number of appointments 9,004
• Number of recurring appointments 260
• Registered PostalOne! schedulers 913

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National Deployment

• National Deployment Experiences
• Web Service Message Response Backup - Fixed
• Volume Constraints
• Continue to work with facilities to create the
  right mix of slot availability and volume
  capacity
• Review completed for Northeast and New York Metro
  Areas
• Customer issues list is being maintained to track
  common questions

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Help Desk Status

• Technical Questions and Problems
• FAST Help Desk 1-800-USPS-HELP
• PostalOne! will be implementing a new set of
  voice prompts for its Memphis Help Desk. 24/7
  support is being rolled out in the near future

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Training Status

• 244 Customers have attended FAST Training
• Additional Classes are planned in
• Hartford, CT August 29
• Springfield, MA August 30
• Harrisburg, PA September 12
• Lehigh Valley, PA September 21
• Philadelphia, PA September 22 and 23
• Registration form available on RIBBS

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Web Services Testing

• Web Services allows Schedulers to develop
  automated appointment scheduling systems within
  their own organization. Web Services is the
  technology that will allow integration of the
  mailer and USPS system.
• USPS FAST and PostalOne! are providing support
  for those schedulers that will be developing and
  implementing Web Services to schedule
  appointments.
• Scheduler Web Services Testing is a 2-phased
  testing effort, that allows companies to verify
  that they are ready to submit appointments in the
  FAST Production environment using Web Services.
  
• During Phase 1, companies test that they can
  successfully connect to PostalOne! using Web
  Services. During Phase 2, companies verify that
  test appointments submitted using Web Services,
  are processed by FAST.
• Forms to register for Web Services Testing are
  located on the table in the back of the room.

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Web Services Testing Status

• Companies completed
• Harte-Hanks Completed 7/15/2005
• Quebecor World Logistics 7/15/2005
• R.R. Donnelley Logistics 7/12/2005
• Companies in process
• ALG Worldwide Logistics Testing with FAST as of
  8/10/05
• Arandell - Connectivity testing with PostalOne!
• Fairrington - Connectivity testing with
  PostalOne!
• Mystic Logistics - Early stages of Web Services
  development - started early August
• Quad Graphics In development

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Surface Visibility

• Surface Visibility deployment has begun
• Mailers may begin bar coding their pallets
• The mailer pallet barcode specification is
  located on the RIBBs website
• Phase 1 of SV is scheduled for completion in
  mid-November

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Next Steps

• FAST deployment continues through mid-November
• Additional functionality in October release
• Incorporate mail diversion/annex information into
  FAST
• Area/District listing
• Pre-logon ability to view appointment status
• Streamline entry of appointment information