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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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March 15, 2012

IMb™ Services Update

Reminder: PostalOne!^® MicroStrategy^® Reporting Maintenance — The PostalOne!^®MicroStrategy^® reporting environment (Mail Quality Reports) will be unavailable on Sunday, March 18, 2012, from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. CDT for scheduled maintenance.

PostalOne! Maintenance — PostalOne! will be applying scheduled maintenance patches on Sunday, March 18, 2012, between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m. CDT. There will be no outages for internal or external users.

Business Customer Gateway Maintenance — The Business Customer Gateway production environment will be unavailable on Sunday, March 18, 2012, from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. CDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, all USPS^® services accessed through the Business Customer Gateway — including PostalOne!, FAST^®, Mailer ID, Program Registration and eDoc submission through Mail.XML^® and Mail.dat^®— will be unavailable.

PostalOne! Release 30.0.0 and FAST Release 20.0 will deploy on Sunday, April 1, 2012. PostalOne! Release 30.0.0 will require an extended maintenance window, with an outage from 8 p.m., Saturday, March 31 to 9 a.m. CDT, Sunday, April 1, 2012. The FAST On-Line application will be unavailable from 4 a.m. CDT to 8 a.m. CDT on Sunday, April 1.

FAST Web Services will not be available during the March 31 through April 1 outage. Messages sent via FAST Web Services will be queued and processed immediately after FAST Release 20.0 and PostalOne! Release 30.0.0 implementation are completed.