There have been a couple of technical problems with PostalMag.com in the past week that I would like to address.

The first problem happened for users who use www.postalworkersonline.com or www.postalrecord.com to access www.postalmag.com. PostalMag.com is the primary domain. The other two domains were "parked" at postalmag.com, meaning users could use those domains and still arrive at postalmag.com. However, the new comments feature (Echo by Haloscan) only works for one domain (postalmag.com). For the other two domains, there were formatting issues that rendered the homepage unusable. I have changed the way postalworkersonline.com is forwarded to postalmag.com and there should be no further technical issues. I have developed a landing page for postalrecord.com. However, users are urged to use the primary domain www.postalmag.com.

The other problem arose sometime early Saturday morning. The hosting service experienced some technical difficulties and it was necessary to reinstall all files. That is a timely process, as many websites were affected, and should be handled by the end of the weekend. This outage is unusual for the hosting service as they are usually very reliable. Fortunately, I have already been able to restore the homepage.

Another issue I would like to address is the new Echo comments feature by Haloscan. These comments are found with news stories and allows PostalMag.com users to comment on these stories. HaloScan is ending its JS-Kit comments service that has been used for many years now, and replacing it with Echo. Echo, actually, is an upgrade that has several options and features not found with JS-Kit. I've seen a couple of comments that users will be going elsewhere because of the comments. However, other sites using JS-Kit will be required to upgrade shortly also.

Overall, these are minor issues that are easily fixed. I just wanted to let you know that I am always working to maintain and improve PostalMag.com. If you have any suggestions or comments please let me know. I appreciate the postalworkersonline.com user who called me about the problem with that domain. I wouldn't have known about it because I use www.postalmag.com to access the site. So if you see a problem please let me know at militarynetwork@gmail.com or 469-360-9134.

Thanks,

Tom Wakefield
PostalMag.com