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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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April 2, 2010

PostalOne! New Mail.dat Client

On November 15, 2009 the Postal Service™ introduced a new USPS® Mail.dat client to upload Mail.dat 8-2 files which replaced the legacy Mail.dat client application. Mailers submitting new Mail.dat, version 8-2 jobs must download and utilize the new USPS Mail.dat client software. Go to section 3.0 of the Postal Service Mail.dat Technical Specification (version 8.8) for release 24 for information on the USPS Mail.dat client software.

In the PostalOne!^® Release 24.0 deployed on March 14^th, 2010, the Postal Service discontinued the support of the legacy Mail.dat client software. Since then some mailers have requested a temporary extension to complete jobs via the legacy client software that were submitted prior to March 15^th. In order to allow mailers time to complete their jobs without resubmitting, we made a one-time exception to temporarily activate the legacy Mail.dat client software until April 16, 2010.

Mailers may not submit any new jobs using the legacy Mail.dat client software. This support will be permanently discontinued on April 16th, 2010. The PostalOne! help desk is available via email at postalone@usps.gov or by calling 1-800-522-9085.