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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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August 5, 2010

IMb™ Services Update

Guides and Specifications Updates: A Guide to Customer Supplier Agreements (CSAs) has been updated. Version 4.5 of the guide has been posted to the RIBBS^® website.

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 a.m. through 8 a.m. (CDT) on Sunday, August 15, 2010.

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

Customers experiencing problems related to CSAs should contact the PostalOne!^®/FAST Help Desk via 1-800-522-9085 or FAST@usps.com for assistance. The Help Desk will activate a remedy ticket and submit it to the CSA Remedy Team.