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The Postal Service is reminding customers that metallic mercury and devices containing metallic mercury are always prohibited in the mail stream. This includes antique items such as thermometers, barometers, blood pressure monitors and similar devices.

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January 4, 2013

IMb™ Services Update

PostalOne!^® Release Webinars — Two mailer webinars will be held in conjunction with the upcoming PostalOne!^® release. The first webinar will be held on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET. The second will be held on Thursday, January 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. These webinars will cover price changes and enhancements to the PostalOne! system, various reports, and initiatives. Complete webinar log-in information is on the RIBBS^® Intelligent Mail Education page at https://ribbs.usps.gov/index.cfm?page=intellmailpresentations.

PostalOne! Release 33.0.0 Deployment — will require an extended maintenance window to complete all software updates. There will be a PostalOne!outage from 8 p.m. Saturday, January 12, 2013, through 9 a.m. CT, Sunday, January 13, 2013. A mandatory Mail.dat^® client download will be available immediately following the software update.

PostalOne! Release 33.0 Deployment to Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) — will occur on Monday, January 14, 2013, and PostalOne! TEM will be unavailable from 4 a.m. through 4 p.m. CT.

Reminder: January 28, 2013, is almost here...are you ready? Have you converted from POSTNET^®to the Intelligent Mail^® barcode (IMb™)? To be eligible for automation discounts you must use the IMb. Contact those who can help speed up the conversion: your software vendor, your mail service provider or your local USPS^® manager, Business Mail Entry. We are here to help.