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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 26, 2012

IMb™ Services Update

Reminder: PostalOne!^® Release 32.0.0 Deployment — will require an extended maintenance window to complete all software updates. There will be a PostalOne!^®outage from 8 p.m. CDT, Saturday, October 27, 2012, through 9 a.m. CDT, Sunday, October 28, 2012. A mandatory Mail.dat^® client download will be available immediately following the software update.

PostalOne! Release 32.0 Deployment to Test Environment for Mailers (TEM) — will occur on Monday, October 29, 2012, and PostalOne! TEM will be unavailable from 4 a.m. through 4 p.m. CDT.

IMb^® Reminder: January 28, 2013 is almost here...are you ready? Have you converted from POSTNET^® to the Intelligent Mail^® barcode (IMb™)? To be eligible for automation discounts you must use the IMb. Contact those who can help speed up the conversion: your software vendor, your mail service provider or your local USPS^® manager, Business Mail Entry. We are here to help.