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Automated Drop Shipment Scheduling Services
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The PostalOne!® FAST Web Services allow customers to automate appointment scheduling using the Web Services defined by the IDEAlliance® in the Transportation Messaging Specification available at http://www.idealliance.org/maildat. The FAST (Facilities Access and Shipment Tracking) system utilizes the PostalOne! system as the main communication platform with USPS® external customers.
All customers needing access to the FAST system are required to become participants of the PostalOne! system. Once your PostalOne! account has been established, you will be able to access FAST appointment-related services as follows:
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FAST website online scheduling - After logging on the PostalOne! system, schedulers can go directly to the FAST website to schedule appointments online. Using this online option, all appointment and content information will be entered manually by the customer. With this method, the PostalOne! system only handles logon authentication, and all other information is processed by the FAST website. Schedulers wanting to make appointments online can also directly log on the FAST website (http://fast.usps.gov). |
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PostalOne! Automated Drop Shipment Scheduling Services - Once a scheduler has logged on the PostalOne! system, the scheduler will send appointment and content information, using the PostalOne! system Web Services capabilities. The schedulers must ensure that all Web Services messages to the PostalOne! system include the SchedulerID and SchedulerCorpID provided via e-mail by the PostalOne! system during their user registration. The PostalOne! system passes this information to FAST. Appointment availability is determined, and the appropriate response message is sent from FAST through the PostalOne! system back to the customer. |
Customers using the suite of electronic services provided by the PostalOne! system (i.e. ePostage, eDocumentation) will be able to leverage their existing information (either Mail.dat® files or eDocumentation and ePostage) within the PostalOne! system to facilitate their appointment scheduling process. Currently, only Mail.dat is supported for scheduling.
Information on Web Services messaging is in accordance with the industry-developed Mail.dat Transportation Messaging Specification, Version 1.1, and version 2.0 and are available at http://www.idealliance.org/maildat. The new version TM 2.0 also enables information sharing between business partners such as Publishers and their mailers or transporters. This service allows the schedulers to query, create, update, and cancel appointments; query content of an existing appointment and request the status of scheduling requests, if a delay in processing the requests occurs within FAST or PostalOne! systems. Additionally, schedulers can request the Closeout Status of their appointments. The FAST system, through the PostalOne! system as the main Web Services engine, provides all scheduling-related communication back to Schedulers.
All PostalOne! FAST Scheduling Services related guides are available through the following links:
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Required Reading
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Additional Resources
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FAST program information |
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New WSDL (TM1.1/TM2.0 Appointment Messages) for Production (ZIP) (3kb) |
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New WSDL (TM1.1/TM2.0 Appointment Messages) for Connectivity Testing, prior to becoming Production-ready (ZIP) (3kb) |
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WSDL (TM1.1 Appointment Messages) for Production (ZIP) (3kb) |
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WSDL (TM1.1 Appointment Messages) for Connectivity Testing, prior to becoming Production-ready (ZIP) (3kb) |
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Authentication XSD (XSD) (1 kb) |
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PostalOne! FAST Connectivity Testing Plan (PDF) (235 kb) | (RTF) (2.8 mb) |
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PostalOne! FAST FAQs (CVS) (4 kb) |
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Web Services Readiness Survey (RTF) (157 kb) | (PDF) (95 kb) |
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