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.
Mar 27, 2025
Program 1: Self-Service will detail interpreting the new ruling on bundling, updates, and how to comply.
Mar 12, 2025
The final USPS Bundling Rule was published this morning in the Federal Register. The effective date is July 1, 2025.
Mar 6, 2025
NNA resources to help members navigate the new USPS bundling requirements
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Feb 1, 2025
At the January 15 Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) meeting in Washington, D.C. ...