1 Thursday Aug. 7, 2008 Intelligent Mail® Readiness
2 Agenda Intelligent Mail Readiness PostalOne! Readiness Support Education/Awareness
3 PostalOne! Readiness Proposed Future Releases Release 17.1 (August 24, 2008) » Periodicals – consolidated payment (CPP) » Nonprofit online application Release 18.0 (Nov 2008) » Mail.XML 4.0 Release 19.0 (March 29, 2009) Full Service » Service Performance (Full Service and Basic) » Mail.dat 09-1 and Mail.XML 4.1
4 PostalOne! Readiness Technical Infrastructure Upgrade (Sep 08 – Nov. 08) » Upgrade hardware/software to increase capacity and improve stability » Increased automated system monitoring » Separate “production-like” environment (Certification) for mailers » Enhanced load balancing and failover » Expanded disaster recovery capability » Provides compliance with USPS Security Policies
5 PostalOne! Readiness Re-engineering Electronic Documentation Acceptance Process (Jul 08 – May. 09) » Improve performance and throughput » Support larger/more complex files » Descriptive error messaging
6 PostalOne! Readiness Comprehensive Software Development Approach for May 2009 Implementation » Resourced Software Development Teams » Business Requirements complete and in review » Technical Design » Develop, Test & Deploy
7 PostalOne! Readiness Comprehensive Software Development Approach for May 2009 Implementation » Basic, Full Service » Electronic Documentation Acceptance » Customer Supplier Agreements » Start-the-Clock » Address Correction » Cast of Characters » Shortage/Spoilage » Comail, Combined Mail, Copalletization » Verification
8 Purpose/Objectives: » Provide customers with support for Basic and Full-Service Intelligent Mail implementation » Respond timely to all customer inquiries regarding Intelligent Mail implementation » Ensure customers receive information specific to the inquiry from Subject Matter Experts Intelligent Mail Support
9 Extensive Training across key USPS channels to provide Intelligent Mail Support Business Mail Acceptance Business Service Network Sales Training/Preparing PostalOne! Help Desk to continue to support Intelligent Mail Added Resources to support Intelligent Mail Continuing to evaluate/update resources Intelligent Mail Support
10 How PostalOne! Help Desk will work » Route Intelligent Mail inquiries to current PostalOne! Help Desk » Provide 2 Tiers of support according to the level of the customer’s need ► Tier 1 » NSCS PostalOne! team members » NCSC Knowledge-based Help Desks ► Tier 2 » IT Development Team » USPS HQ Subject Matter Experts (new) Intelligent Mail Support
11 Tier 1 » The automated answering system will provide the caller with an Intelligent Mail Support Option » The Help Desk will either: ► Directly answer the caller’s inquiry ► Place caller in direct contact with a technical Subject Matter Expert at the NCSC ► Current average wait time is 24 seconds ► Turn around on applications is 24 hours Intelligent Mail Support
12 Tier 1: PostalOne! Help Desk » Intelligent Mail barcodes & labels » eDOC File acceptance/processing » PostalOne! access » Feedback/Reports » Mailer ID Intelligent Mail Support
13 Tier 2: IT Development Team » Technical Issues Intelligent Mail Support
14 Tier 2: HQ Subject Matter Experts » Strategies and Techniques » Label/Barcode Construction » Electronic Documentation Creation, Update, Handoff » Customer Supplier Agreements » Mailer Profile Mapping Intelligent Mail Support
15 Education/Awareness Educate customers through key USPS channels » Business Mail Entry » Business Service Network » Sales PCCs Webinars with vendors and mailers Association events and publications
16 Education/Awareness Materials » A Guide to Intelligent Mail for Letters and Flats » Updating Intelligent Mail Website/RIBBS » Technical Specifications » PCC Workshops in a Box » Video » Publications ► PCC Insider, Postal Bulletin, DMM Advisory, MailPro
17 Education/Awareness Ongoing Dialogue » Aggressive USPS outreach » Telecons » How To workshops » Leveraging our collective knowledge