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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 14, 2011

IMb™ Services Update

PostalOne!^® Maintenance Outage: There will be a PostalOne!^®outage during the scheduled maintenance window Sunday, October 16, 2011, from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT. PostalOne! applications, including Mail.XML^® web services, will be unavailable for internal and external users during this time.

PostalOne!^®Release 28.0: The scheduled maintenance window of 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT on Sunday, October 23 and Sunday, October 30, 2011 may be used to prepare for PostalOne!Release 28.0 deployment and may result in a PostalOne! outage. PostalOne! Release 28.0 deployment on Sunday, November 6, 2011, will require a longer maintenance window than the normally scheduled 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT window. The exact time will be communicated no later than October 21, 2011.

Test Environment for Mailers (TEM): The new authorization process for mailers to submit electronic mailing information (eDoc) and participate in Full-Service will go into effect on October 25, 2011. Updated eDoc and Full-Service authorization guides for Mail.dat^® and Mail.XML can be found on RIBBs^® under Intelligent Mail Guides and Specs.