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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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April 20, 2012

IMb™ Services Update

Reminder: PostalOne!^® Maintenance Outage — from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT on Sunday, April 22, 2012, to prepare for a major database technology upgrade.

PostalOne! Major Upgrade Outage — The major database technology upgrade will be completed during an extended maintenance window from 6 p.m. CDT Saturday, April 28, 2012, to 6 p.m. CDT Sunday, April 29, 2012.

During this outage, PostalOne!^® and Mail.XML^® will be unavailable, including FAST^® and eDOC Web Services.

If the April 28-29 upgrade has to be rescheduled, it will occur on the weekend of Saturday, May 5, 2012, through Sunday, May 6, 2012.

PostalOne! TEM Major Upgrade Outage — The major database technology upgrade will be completed on the Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) during an extended maintenance window from 4 p.m. Saturday, May 5, 2012, to 8 a.m. CDT Sunday, May 6, 2012.