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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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July 11, 2011

IMb™ Services Update

Business Customer Gateway outage: The Business Customer Gateway production environment will be unavailable on Sunday, July 24, 2011, from 12:00 am (CDT) to 8:00 am (CDT).

During this window, all USPS services accessed through the Business Customer Gateway — including PostalOne!^®, FAST^®, Mailer ID, Program Registration and eDoc submission via Mail.XML/Mail.dat — will be unavailable.

Tasks performed during this outage include deploying a new version of the Customer Registration system. In addition, to support the launch of the new USPS.com site, minor changes will be made to the header/footer areas of the Business Customer Gateway and to the systems mentioned above.