We investigate L-p(gamma)-L-q(gamma) off -diagonal estimates for the Ornstein- Uhlenbeck semigroup (e(tL))(t > 0). For sufficiently large t ( quantified in terms of p and q), these estimates hold in an unrestricted sense, while, for sufficiently small t, they fail when restricted to maximal admissible balls and sufficiently small annuli. Our counterexample uses Mehler kernel