From USPS FAST Team:

Attention FAST Customers,

The FAST emergency patch to address the Web Services issue has been completed.

All FAST application and Web Services are now available for all customers.

There was no system outage time required and all services are restarted and stable.

If you have any problems or issues please contact the USPS FAST Help Desk at fast@usps.gov.

From USPS FAST…the FAST Team does a good job of sending out timely communications:

Attention FAST Customers,

The FAST application requires an emergency patch to address an issue affecting some FAST Web Services customers.

The patching will occur during an emergency patch window of 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm CDT today, July 27, 2010.

The online FAST application will be available during the patch, however, if you are connected to the FAST application you may be disconnected as systems are restarted. You can immediately log back in to the FAST application and continue operation.

Web Services will not experience any service interruption.

You will be notified when the patch is complete.

If you have any questions please contact FAST Help Desk at FAST@usps.gov.

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Sent from the USPS Help Desk at 3:30 pm Eastern:

Attention PostalOne!® Users
The connectivity issues peported[sic] earlier has been isolated and resolved by the Technical Team.
Mailers should now be able to Transmits[sic] their Job files.
We apologize for the inconvenience.