March 17, 2019 Releases PostalOne! System Release 48.1.0.0 Program Registration Release 20.1.0.0 Enterprise Payment System Release 3.7.0.0 Crosswalk Release 8.0.0.0 Pre-Release Notes CHANGE 3.0 SCHEDULED DEPLOYMENT DATE: MARCH 17, 2019 PRE-RELEASE NOTES PUBLISH DATE: FEBRUARY 14, 2019 External The following trademarks are owned by the United States Postal Service: ACS®, CASS™, CASS Certified™, Certified Mail™, DMM®, eVS®, FAST®, First-Class™, First-Class Mail®, Full- Service ACS™, IM®, IMb™, IMb Tracing™, Intelligent Mail®, OneCode ACS®, OneCode Solution®, PLANET Code®, 1®, POSTNET™, Postage Statement Wizard®, Postal Service™, Priority Mail®, Registered Mail™, RIBBS™, Standard Mail®, The Postal Service®, United States Postal Service®, USPS®, USPS.COM®, ZIP®, ZIP Code™, ZIP + 4® and ZIP+4™. This is not a complete list of all Postal trademarks. Idealliance® Mail.XML ™and Mail.dat™ are registered trademarks of the International Digital Enterprise Alliance, Inc. Sun™, Sun Microsystems™, and Java™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle® Corporation. Microsoft™, Microsoft Windows®, and Microsoft Internet Explorer® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks used are the property of their respective owners. March 17 2019 Pre-Release Notes 2/14/2019 ii Copyright © 2019 USPS. All rights reserved. External TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................... 1 2.0 MAIL.DAT CLIENT SUPPORT......................................................................................................................................... 1 3.0 POSTALONE! SYSTEM – ENHANCEMENTS, UPDATES, AND NEW FUNCTIONALITY ........................................... 1 3.1 Enterprise Payment System (EPS) Account Verification ............................................................................................... 1 3.2 Mailing Promotion Support ............................................................................................................................................. 1 3.2.1 Support for New Promotion – Informed Delivery Promotion (ID) ............................................................................. 2 3.2.2 Update to Existing Promotion – Mobile Shopping Promotion ................................................................................... 3 3.3 Picture Permit Indicia (PPI) Registration Process Update ............................................................................................. 3 3.3.1 Picture Permit Indicia Registration Interface and Workflow ...................................................................................... 4 3.4 PostalOne! System Interface with Enterprise Payment System (EPS) .......................................................................... 4 4.0 POSTALONE! SYSTEM – CORRECTIONS TO KNOWN ISSUES................................................................................. 4 4.1 Electronic Data Exchange .............................................................................................................................................. 4 4.2 Electronic Verification System (eVS) .............................................................................................................................. 5 4.3 Postage Statement Processing ...................................................................................................................................... 6 4.4 PostalOne! System Interface to Enterprise Payment System (EPS) ............................................................................. 6 4.5 Postal Wizard ................................................................................................................................................................. 6 4.6 Scan Based Payment ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 5.0 PROGRAM REGISTRATION – ENHANCEMENTS, UPDATES, AND NEW FUNCTIONALITY .................................... 7 5.1 Informed Delivery Promotion .......................................................................................................................................... 7 5.2 Share Mail....................................................................................................................................................................... 7 6.0 PROGRAM REGISTRATION – CORRECTIONS TO KNOWN ISSUES ......................................................................... 7 6.1 Incentive Enrollment ....................................................................................................................................................... 7 6.2 Reports ........................................................................................................................................................................... 7 7.0 ENTERPRISE PAYMENT SYSTEM – CORRECTIONS TO KNOWN ISSUES .............................................................. 8 7.1 Manage Payment Accounts ........................................................................................................................................... 8 7.2 Process Transactions ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 8.0 CROSSWALK – ENHANCEMENTS, UPDATES, AND NEW FUNCTIONALITY ........................................................... 9 8.1 Reports ........................................................................................................................................................................... 9 9.0 DOCUMENT HISTORY .................................................................................................................................................. 10 NOTE: The information in this document concerns planned revisions that are not historical facts. Actual results may differ from these forward-looking statements. March 17 2019 Pre-Release Notes 2/14/2019 iii Copyright © 2019 USPS. All rights reserved. External INDEX NOTE: In general, index entries are identified by their ALM Requirement ID and/or ALM Item ID, with references as shown below. Where two numbers are shown, the requirement number is indicated by “-R”. Application Suffix Identifier (“-X”) no suffix: ALM Item numbers PostalOne! System R: ALM Requirement numbers Program Registration G Enterprise Payment System (EPS) E Crosswalk C 1042-E ................... 8 12762 ...................... 5 12990 ..................... 6 2315-G ................... 7 1234-E ................... 8 12763 ...................... 5 20157-R .................. 1 2316-G ................... 7 12474 ..................... 6 12850 ...................... 6 20163-R .................. 1 2317-G ................... 7 12586 ..................... 5 12880 ...................... 6 20-C ........................ 9 2319-G ................... 7 1263-E ................... 8 12903 ...................... 5 2297-G ................... 7 2321-G ................... 7 12653 ..................... 5 12912 ...................... 4 2299-G ................... 7 2323-G ................... 7 12660 ..................... 5 12955 ...................... 6 2300-G ................... 7 2324-G ................... 7 12705 ..................... 6 12971 ...................... 4 2310-G ................... 7 2326-G ................... 7 March 17 2019 Pre-Release Notes 2/14/2019 iv Copyright © 2019 USPS. All rights reserved. External 1.0 Introduction On Sunday, March 17, 2019, the United States Postal Service will implement the following software changes: PostalOne! System Release 48.1.0.0 Program Registration Release 20.1.0.0 Enterprise Payment System (EPS) Release 3.7.0.0 Crosswalk Release 8.0.0.0 These Pre-Release Notes provide the contents of the release and affected subsystems. The sections titled Corrections to Known Issues are derived from External Trouble Reports (ETRs) and Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) for inclusion in these releases. This document is prepared based on the knowledge available at the time of its publication and any element may be subject to change prior to publication. 2.0 Mail.dat Client Support Please note the following regarding the Mail.dat client download. There is a new required Mail.dat client version with this release. Users should download Mail.dat client version 48.1.0.0_PROD from the Business Customer Gateway (BCG) using the following path: Mailing Services Electronic Data Exchange [Go to Service] Mail.dat download (Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit or Solaris). 3.0 PostalOne! System – Enhancements, Updates, and New Functionality 3.1 Enterprise Payment System (EPS) Account Verification The PostalOne! System will be updated to validate Enterprise Payment System (EPS) accounts at the time of mail acceptance in order to alert mailers and clerks of any account-related issues prior to the mail leaving the acceptance facility. EPS accounts will be validated during the eDoc upload, Postal Wizard statement creation, and BMEU Permit Entry stages. The EPS account verification check will be made on any EPS permit that is present for the Permit Holder and/or Additional Postage Permit (Affixed Postage and/or verification failures). For statements entered through the Business Customer Gateway (BCG) using the Postal Wizard, mailers will be prevented from submitting the statement for