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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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February 6, 2009

Updated Proposal for Domestic Mailing Services

Today the Federal Register published our revised mailing standards proposal [HTML] | [PDF] to support the May 2009 Mailing Services price change. We encourage customers to review and comment before March 6 by writing to the Manager of Mailing Standards, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3436, Washington DC 20260-3436.

In addition to mailing or delivering your comments, you also can submit them via e-mail to MailingStandards@usps.gov. When commenting by e-mail, please indicate “New Standards for Domestic Mailing Services, Revised Proposal” in the subject line.