Protecting, Promoting and Enhancing Community Newspapers Since 1885
NNA works daily on postal issues that affect community newspapers. Its goals are to achieve fair rates, efficient service and a level competitive playing field between newspapers and direct mail competitors.
NNA represents community newspapers:
On the Postal Service’s Mailers Technical Advisory Committee
Before the Postal Regulatory Commission
With the House Oversight and Government Committee
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Some of NNA’s achievements include:
Preserving the lowest commercial postage rate in the system—the Within County privilege—for community newspapers for more than 120 years
Gaining a new 5 percent discount for Outside County postage for total mailings of under 5,000 copies when a paper has the Within County privilege
Making sure a newspaper does not lose the privilege just because a postal carrier’s route wanders outside a county line
Gaining an extension for the requirement to shift to a new Intelligent Mail Barcode for automation discounts
Preserving next-day or better service standards for periodicals entered at local post offices or mail distribution facilities
National Newspaper Association provides postal consulting services for its members.
Sep 20, 2024
While the release specifically refers to no increases for stamps, NNA has confirmed that newspaper rates will also remain at current levels until at least July of 2025.
Sep 1, 2024
All publishers of Periodicals publications, including Foreign publications, must file a Form 3526 Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation by October 1st each year at the original–entry ...
Aug 23, 2024
NNA Member Alert — The U.S. Postal Service has again proposed to lower public expectations for mail delivery, having already proven it cannot reliably deliver mail on time in many areas.
Aug 22, 2024
The third season of the Max Heath Postal Institute™ course on newspaper mail resumes Thursday, August 22. We'll focus on managing your address list, properly addressing your newspapers and preparing ...
Aug 1, 2024
We felt that this would put an excessive burden on small newspapers to have to purchase expensive equipment if they do their mailing in-house.
Jul 8, 2024
Pursuant to the proposed changes to rules regarding Securing Bundles of Flats (89 FR 50542) ...
Jul 1, 2024
The Preferred Price Discount actually applies to Periodicals mailers that qualify as non-profits, science and agriculture publications or classroom publications. But smaller regular Periodicals are also ...
Jun 28, 2024
The comments were part of a review by the PRC of its postal rate regulations, which it is required by Congress to do periodically.