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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 23, 2012

IMb™ Services Update

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. A new client version for Mail.dat^®download will be available immediately after the maintenance window.

The FAST On-Line application will be unavailable from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT on Sunday, April 1.

Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) — PostalOne! Release 30.0.0 and FAST Release 20.0 will deploy to the Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) on Monday, April 2, 2012. PostalOne! TEM will be unavailable from 4 a.m. through 4 p.m. CDT and the FAST TEM On-Line application and Web Services will not be available from 8 a.m. to 12 noon CDT.

Business Customer Gateway Release 3.3 will deploy on Sunday, April 1, 2012, from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT in a rolling fashion with no outage to the users.

PostalOne! Release 30.0 Webinars will be held on March 27, 28 and 29 to review PostalOne! changes that will be implemented on April 1, 2012. Complete webinar information, including log on and times, can be found on RIBBS under Intelligent Mail Latest News .