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:

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

NNA Postal Hotline

National Newspaper Association provides postal consulting services for its members.

MHPI Special Sessions: Self-Service

Mar 27, 2025

Program 1: Self-Service will detail interpreting the new ruling on bundling, updates, and how to comply.

USPS issues final bundling rule

Mar 12, 2025

The final USPS Bundling Rule was published this morning in the Federal Register. The effective date is July 1, 2025.

NNA offers resources to navigate USPS' new newspaper bundling rules

Mar 6, 2025

NNA resources to help members navigate the new USPS bundling requirements

NNA calls on Congressional oversight committees to address USPS proposed administration changes

Feb 26, 2025

Today, NNA Chair Martha Diaz Aszkenazy, publisher, The San Fernando Valley (California) Sun, and NNA's Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) representatives sent a letter to the leaders ...

Trump said to be considering dissolving USPS Board of Governors

Feb 21, 2025

NNA is aware of reliable reports that the White House intends to try to dissolve the USPS Board of Governors and move the Postal Service back to a cabinet department.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announces intention to leave USPS

Feb 18, 2025

Today, the United States Postal service issued a press release announcing that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has signaled that it is time for the USPS Board of Governors to identify a replacement.

Bundles and the USPS

Feb 1, 2025

To refresh your memory, the Postal Service issued a proposed rule last summer that would require all flats bundles to be secured by two or more cross-strapped bands or be shrink-wrapped with two or ...