# Presentation: 761385

## PostalOne!®

**Postage Payment & Statements - Approach & Design Workgroup**
**Dan Minnick**
**Larry Goodman**

## Web Service Update
Methods Available
Submit Postage Statements*
Cancel PS & Retrieve Data
Submit Qualification Report
Testing Now through June
* All Domestic Statements

**Methods Available**
**Submit Postage Statements*******
**Cancel PS & Retrieve Data**
**Submit Qualification Report**
**Testing Now through June**
*** All Domestic Statements**

## Workgroup Purpose:
   A focused sub-group supporting US Postal Service PostalOne! team in developing strategies, activities, and processes to achieve complete support of electronic postage statement and payment processing for all classes of mail.  

-    A focused sub-group supporting US Postal Service *PostalOne!* team in developing strategies, activities, and processes to achieve complete support of electronic postage statement and payment processing for all classes of mail.

## General Approach:
Focus on the electronic process and its needs.
Develop approach and construct specification for comprehensive electronic postage statement and payment processing.
Include all stake-holders which the discussion demands.

- Focus on the electronic process and its needs.
- Develop approach and construct specification for comprehensive electronic postage statement and payment processing.
- Include all stake-holders which the discussion demands.

## Specific Approach - Thus Far:
Two meetings and four conference calls focusing upon Standard Mail. 
Identified 17 specific "needs" required to foster a fully complete environment.
Worked 8 "needs" to the point of describing what's necessary for complete functionality.

- Two meetings and four conference calls focusing upon Standard Mail.
- Identified 17 specific "needs" required to foster a fully complete environment.
- Worked 8 "needs" to the point of describing what's necessary for complete functionality.

## Functionalities Defined:
Defined specific behaviors and processes needed for the following functionalities:
Shortages
Combined Mailings: meter, permit, pre-cancelled stamps for regular and non-profit
Postage Affixed: pre-cancelled stamps, pre-affixed meter strips, post-affixed meter strips
Multiple presorts in one Mail.dat Segment
Postage payment adjustment for additional postage from third party

- Defined specific behaviors and processes needed for the following functionalities:
- Shortages
- Combined Mailings: meter, permit, pre-cancelled stamps for regular and non-profit
- Postage Affixed: pre-cancelled stamps, pre-affixed meter strips, post-affixed meter strips
- Multiple presorts in one Mail.dat Segment
- Postage payment adjustment for additional postage from third party

## Functionalities Defined (continued)
Defined specific behaviors and processes needed for the following functionalities:
Co-palletization
Co-Mailing using multiple permits
Accommodate Register of multiple presorts within one statement
Change in presort postage adjustment

- Defined specific behaviors and processes needed for the following functionalities:
- Co-palletization
- Co-Mailing using multiple permits
- Accommodate Register of multiple presorts within one statement
- Change in presort postage adjustment

## What's Next:
More calls  --  More meetings.
Work through definition and identification of functional solution for remaining nine "needs".
Repeat full process for remaining classes.

- More calls  --  More meetings.
- Work through definition and identification of functional solution for remaining nine "needs".
- Repeat full process for remaining classes.

## Scheduled Meetings:

Conference Call, to be announced.

- Conference Call, to be announced.

## Contact Information:

Dana Nacke    
703-248-3552        dana.nacke@usps.gov

Dan Minnick       
224-698-5683        dan.minnick@experian.com

- Dana Nacke
- 703-248-3552        _[dana.nacke@usps.gov](mailto:dana.nacke@usps.gov)_
- Dan Minnick
- 224-698-5683        _[dan.minnick@experian.com](mailto:dan.minnick@experian.com)_