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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 26, 2012

IMb™ Services Update

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

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

Saturday, May 5, 2012 through Sunday, May 6, 2012 should be considered the contingency weekend for the April 28-29 outage if issues result in a rescheduled upgrade.

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. CDT Saturday, May 5, 2012, through 8 a.m. CDT Sunday, May 6, 2012.

Business Customer Gateway Outage - The Business Customer Gateway upgrade to Oracle 11 will be deployed to the Production environment on Sunday, May 6, 2012, from 4:00 am to 8:00 am CDT during the scheduled maintenance window. During this upgrade, all USPS services accessed through the Business Customer Gateway, including PostalOne!, FAST, Mailer ID and Program Registration will not be available.