National Newspaper Association
Protecting, Promoting and Enhancing Community Newspapers Since 1885
Postal
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:
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On the Postal Service’s Mailers Technical Advisory Committee
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Before the Postal Regulatory Commission
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With the House Oversight and Government Committee
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The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Some of NNA’s achievements include:
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Preserving the lowest commercial postage rate in the system—the Within County privilege—for community newspapers for more than 120 years
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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
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Making sure a newspaper does not lose the privilege just because a postal carrier’s route wanders outside a county line
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Gaining an extension for the requirement to shift to a new Intelligent Mail Barcode for automation discounts
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Preserving next-day or better service standards for periodicals entered at local post offices or mail distribution facilities
NNA Postal Hotline
National Newspaper Association provides postal consulting services for its members.
Understanding Periodicals Lesson III: Things You Never Knew
Jun 8, 2023
The second season of the Max Heath Postal Institute™ course on newspaper mail resumes June 8 at 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT/1 p.m. MT/12 p.m. PT.
National Newspaper Association criticizes relentless postage rate increases
May 30, 2023
A House Committee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service today received a statement from the National Newspaper Association and others in a broad coalition of mailing and package shipping groups that criticizes ...
NNA asks Postal Regulatory Commission to stop hammering newspapers with rate surcharges
May 10, 2023
National Newspaper Association Chair John M. Galer today asked the Postal Regulatory Commission to stop adding a 2% surcharge onto postage rate increases as part of its efforts to bring Periodicals mail ...
It is clear that USPS will be altered forever by 2023-24
May 1, 2023
It is hard to predict right now what further hurdles the Postal Service might throw at newspaper mailers. But it is possible to toss out some good guesses.
Hard Copy Postage Statements will be gone after Jan 28, 2024
Apr 25, 2023
NNA Member Alert: The U.S. Postal Service has reaffirmed that it will require electronic entry of postage statements next year.
Max Heath Postal Institute ™ Understanding Periodicals mail Vol. 2 Session 2
Apr 19, 2023
This session will cover the basics of maintaining a Periodicals permit, finding answers to questions and changes to the operations network coming in 2023.
Newspaper mail hit hard again by US Postal Service
Apr 10, 2023
The U.S. Postal Service has announced another postage increase for July 9 that again sends Periodicals postage into the double-digit zone for annual increases.
Changes are happening; be ready
Apr 1, 2023
The eDoc submission process includes confirmation that Move Update standards for address correction have been met and that the carrier route accuracy standard has been met for each address in the mailing.
