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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 21, 2010

IMb^™ Services Update

PostalOne!Server Patching (July 25, 2010): The PostalOne!^® production and Testing Environment for Mailers (TEM) application servers will have security patches applied during the scheduled maintenance window of 4:00 a.m. through 8:00 a.m. (CDT) on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The PostalOne! system (including FAST^® OPS web services) will be unavailable for internal and external users during this period.

Retirement of FAST Web Services (July 31, 2010): FAST Web Services (Mail.XML^® 4.0) will be retired on July 31, 2010. All customers have migrated to either FAST Mail.XML 8.0 or FAST Mail.XML 6.0.

Mail Data Quality Reports Outage (August 1, 2010): Mail Data Quality Reports will be unavailable on Sunday, August 1, 2010, from 4:00 a.m. – 12 Noon (CDT) due to a system upgrade. There will be no additional outage/impact to the PostalOne! system.

FAST Release 14.3.0 and Scheduled Outages (August 15-16, 2010): FAST Release 14.3.0 will deploy to the production environment on Sunday, August 15, 2010. Updated release notes for FAST 14.3.0 are available on RIBBS^®>Site Index A-Z>FAST/Surface Visibility>Important Links>FAST Release Notes. The FAST Production system will not be available from 4:00 a.m. through 8:00 a.m. (CDT) on Sunday, August 15, 2010.

FAST Release 14.3.0 deploy to the TEM on Monday, August 16, 2010. The FAST TEM system will not be available from 8:00 a.m. through 12 Noon (CDT) on Monday, August 16, 2010.