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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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October 5, 2012

IMb™ Services Update

PostalOne!^® Release Webinars – Mailer webinars will be held on October 9, 2012, at 1 p.m. EDT and on October 11, 2012, at 11 a.m.EDT. The webinars will cover changes and enhancements to the PostalOne!^®system, various reports, and initiatives. Complete webinar log-in information can be found on the RIBBS^® Intelligent Mail Education page at https://ribbs.usps.gov/index.cfm?page=intellmailpresentations.

Reminder: PostalOne! Release 32.0.0 will deploy on Sunday October 14, 2012. Release 32.0.0 will require an extended maintenance window with an outage from 8 p.m. Saturday, October 13, 2012, through 9 a.m. CDT Sunday, October 14, 2012. A mandatory Mail.dat^® client download will be available immediately following the software update.

Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) — PostalOne! Release 32.0.0 will deploy to the Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) on Monday, October 15, 2012. PostalOne! TEM will be unavailable from 4 a.m. through 4 p.m. CDT.