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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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March 4, 2011

IMb™ Services Update

Business Customer Gateway update — As a reminder, the Business Customer Gateway (BCG) external application Release 1.8 will deploy this Sunday, March 6, 2011.

New features include:

A Program Registration application with Shipping Services and Incentive Programs added.
Business Service Administrator (BSA) roles and service types enabled within the BCG sub-systems to increase security.

See detailed information in the Business Customer Gateway External Users Release 1.8 Notes posted on RIBBS^®.

Full Service applications unavailable during March 6 UNIX maintenance — On March 6, 2011, the Postal Service will be applying the quarterly UNIX operating system patches between 4 a.m. CT and 4 p.m. CT. The Full Service applications, including Business Customer Gateway, Mailer ID, FAST^® and PostalOne!/MDR, will be unavailable during this time.