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January 14, 2021
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Click the "What’s New" link located in the first sentence. The "What's New" page specific to the software release will open.
We also provide "What's New" in the Support Portal's Knowledge Base under "News and Updates".
Supports the new USPS January 2021 Rate Case, which starts on January 24, 2021.
Support 2021 USPS Promotions.
New 2021 Statements are available.
NOTE: International statements are no longer supported, after 1/23/21. Existing International statements can still be accessed.
Support Mail.dat 21-1 files.
Added option to suppress OCI from exporting in a non-copal submission.
Enhanced Open and Distribute Postage Detail and Activity Reports to avoid accidentally leaving out jobs.
Improvements to Undocumented Piece Audit Report.
Logistics Data Exchange now available in Editor.
See below for details.
Improved the Merger and Splitter - both have increased processing speed and the number of mail.dat files that can be merged has increased significantly.
Support 21-1 Mail.dat files.
See below for details.
Support 21-1 Mail.dat files.
Support 21-1 Mail.dat files.
Added support for Pitney Bowes API for purchasing USPS labels.
Integrated Pitney Bowes Pickup APIs that allow Enterprise Shipper users to schedule package pickups from commercial and residential locations and, when needed, to cancel scheduled pickups.
Package information can quickly be filtered and exported using today's date in the Export Wizard.
Added number of days left before subscription ends and the software version on the title bar.
Prevent users from entering negative values for dimensions and weight.
Changed order of dimensions from Length, Height and Width to Length, Width and Height.
Added Invoice No. to the Packages List.
See below for details.
Supports the new January 2021 Rate Case, which starts on January 24, 2021
Postal Explorer - January 2021 Price Change
Support 2021 USPS Promotions
2021 Mailing Promotions Calendar and Description of Programs
New 2021 Statements are available.
If the Postage Statement Mailing Date is set to 1/24/2021 or after, the new 2021 version of USPS statements will be generated.
Added option to suppress OCI from exporting in a non-copal submission.
Mailers receiving Mail.dat files with the OCI included, when the job is not copal can prevent the PostalOne! error "Primary key of the oci file cannot be updated". When this option is set, only the copalletized job will include the OCI.
Go to File > Program Settings > Program Setup > PostalOne! tab and select (check) Suppress OCI on non-copal submissions.
Enhanced Open and Distribute Postage Detail and Account Activity Reports to avoid accidentally leaving out jobs..
If a user has a job specific filter set in the PMOD Labels/Shipments Browse screen, the Open and Distribute Postage Detail reports or the Account Activity report can still be run for all jobs. Formerly, if a user filtered by a job or group of jobs, when the reports were run it only would include those jobs.
For example, there were two jobs run on 11/16/20 and the PMOD Labels/Shipments Browse screen is filtered by Job Number and only one of the two jobs is showing. Now, when one of the three reports is run and the Job Number and Job Name fields are left blank, then both jobs will appear on the report.
Improvements to Undocumented Piece Audit Report
Removes deactivated pieces from report.
Sometimes the USPS changes its mind about a piece being undocumented after reporting it as undocumented in the Informed Visibility Seamless Error export. When this happens, the Undocumented Piece Audit Report will remove these deactivated pieces from the report.
You can now run the report for a PostalOne! assessment billing period.
This will allow the Undocumented Piece Audit report to be run for the same data that was reflected in an assessment. These periods start with dates beginning with the first of the following month though assessments may will include scan data collected through the 10th of the following month.
The report now includes a summary by job sorted by job category.
Before you see the scorecard summary for the entire date range and/or billing period you are running the report for, you will see a summary by job of where the undocumented pieces came from. Instead of eleven lines showing you the reason the piece was undocumented, the job summary will show these rolled into three columns. The “finalized” column are pieces you should be able to easily challenge.
The job category was added to help those who presort mailings that are outsourced to comminglers. You can associate these files to a “Commingled” category when you import them. Also, this will prevent these files from being presented to the PostalOne! PROD environment. This way when you run the Undocumented Piece Audit report, you will see the pieces belonging to commingled jobs separated from the jobs you mail. You will need to report these errors to your commingler to have them resolved. For information on Job Categories, refer to the Job Categories User Guide.
Logistics Data Exchange now available in Editor
If you send mail.dat files to your logistics company or commingler, this feature will make it very easy to upload one or more mail.dat files to them via SFTP. This feature was previously available only in Toolbox.
Setup
Go to File Menu > Carrier List, then click Insert to add a carrier.
Enter a short Code for the carrier
Type in a Name that may also reflect what the carrier is doing with the upload.
For example you can send a file to ALG for an estimate, for optimization or to order transportation. You would need a different profile for each logistics company or commingler.
Go to the Data Exchange tab and click the drop down next to Data Export Method and select SFTP.
In Site or IP, enter a Site URL or IP address.
Files Will Be Returned, do not select (check), unless for LSC "OnePrice".
Note: With this feature, after a file is exported the job is locked and AWAM (AWAM is required) will check for a new file at regular intervals.
When a new file is available it is automatically downloaded, updated to the original job, the job is unlocked, and an e-mail notification is sent to you confirming the receipt and update of the information. Please let us know if you are interested in using the file return/update feature. If there is enough interest we may expedite adding support for other logistics vendors.
Enter your Login and Password.
Populate the Original Upload Folder name with the folder name provided to you by your carrier for the function you are trying to do.
NOTE: Currently, downloads are only supported for LSC “OnePrice”.
In Mailer Retrieval, do not enter a mailer e-mail address at this time. It is used to notify you of an update job that is returned and updated automatically. Again, this is only supported currently with LSC “OnePrice”.
In Customer Service, enter the e-mail address of a customer service person at the logistics company that would like to be notified of new uploads.
Sending files to a logistics or commingle company
Press the trailer icon on DAT-MAIL toolbar.
In the Logistics Data Exchange Job Browse window, select (check) the jobs you want to send then click Send to Carrier.
The Browse the Carrier File window will appear, highlight the carrier, and click Select.
A Warning dialog will display, click Yes, if the correct carrier name is displayed in the dialog or click No to cancel.
A Progress... screen will display, it may take a few minutes to complete depending on size of jobs and number of jobs selected.
A Totals of process... dialog will display, confirm that the jobs show as Successful upload, when ready click OK. If any are not successful click on Show Log to see what issues occurred.
In the Logistics Data Exchange Job Browse window, there are three columns that will populate - Carrier Name, LGS Status and LGS Date. LGS stands for Logistics.
In the print screen below, the two jobs failed to upload to the carrier. Below the print screen is the types of jobs that can be transferred at an explanation of each LGS Status value.
For a job to be sent to a logistics company or commingler it must meet the following requirements:
Class must be Standard (Marketing Mail)
Mail Shape (Processing Category) is letters.
No Logical containers exist (in CSM)
No Sibling containers existing (in CSM)
All trays are on mother pallets.
The Status field values are:
<blank>: no status
Validation failed: If any of the above requirements are not met, then the status will show as validation failed.
Exported: Job has been exported to a temp folder, but not sent to the logistics company.
Uploaded: If the job has been successfully uploaded to the carrier's site.
Retrieved: If the job has been successfully updated by the carrier and revisions have successfully been made in DAT-MAIL.
Original upload failed: If the job has not been successfully uploaded to the carrier's site.
Apply Update Failed: The job was updated by the carrier, but the revisions were not successfully made in DAT-MAIL.
Added support for Pitney Bowes API for purchasing USPS labels.
Pitney Bowes (PB) has worked with us to offer their customers the ability to pay for USPS packages through their PB Merchant Portal.
NOTE: For PB customers pushing funds into their ledger account, as soon as a production label is printed, on the first shipment you will get an error indicating you have no funds, even though you do. However, for the next shipment the ledger will have funds and then you will be ready to go. If you have any issues, please contact PB.
Integrated Pitney Bowes Pickup APIs that allow Enterprise Shipper users to schedule package pickups from commercial and residential locations and, when needed, to cancel scheduled pickups.
Scheduling package pickups and canceling pickups is all done through Enterprise Shipper, no need to access Pitney Bowes Merchant Portal.
Package information can quickly be filtered and exported using today's date in the Export Wizard.
In the second screen of the Export Wizard (shown below), when Shipping Date is dragged to the Filtered Values pane , the Enter the field value dialog will appear, check Use Today's Date, then click OK. Click Next to continue through the setup of fields to include in the report, click Next, and then click Save Template As, before clicking Export.
Added number of days left before subscription ends and the software version on the title bar.
Prevent users from entering negative values for dimensions and weight.
While we did not have any reported issues of this, it makes sense to prevent this from occurring.
Changed order of dimensions from Length, Height and Width to Length, Width and Height, in the Create Package screen.
Added Invoice No. to the Packages screen - Packages List.
Not all Window Book products that were published in this release include enhancements. Some products were released as a result of bug fixes or support updates for other Window Book software. All Window Book software should be kept up to date at all times to avoid any possible operating issues. The Window Book product(s) that were released and fit these criteria are listed in this section. Links to each product’s Software Update page are provided so you can easily download and install the latest version.