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
The Last Word: Postal Delivery Issues
Feb 1, 2024
For three straight weeks, our local papers weren't delivered anywhere close to on time from the United States Postal Service Toledo Distribution Center, and we didn't know why. We didn't know what suddenly ...
USPS Industry Alert: Postal Service Allows a Grace Period for Implementation of the USPS Electronic Postage Statement Requirement for BMEU Domestic Mailings
Jan 23, 2024
To provide mailers additional time to comply with the discontinuance of hardcopy postage statements policy change, there will be a limited-time grace period.
Are you ready to file postage statements digitally?
Jan 4, 2024
The U.S. Postal Service is reminding commercial mailers that the end of near for hard-copy postage statements.
As 2023 drew to a close ...
Jan 1, 2024
Waiting for invoice payments to show up in your mailbox … and waiting … and waiting? There might be a reason for that, and it isn’t because your customers are suddenly slow–payers.
Industry groups create scholarship honoring Tonda Rush
Dec 1, 2023
Rush became NNA’s Chief Executive Officer in 1992 when NNA had a staff of 20 in Washington, D.C.
Max Heath Postal Institute™ awards newspaper professionals with Periodicals certification
Dec 1, 2023
Newspaper professionals attended hours of Periodicals training with the NNA Postal Team and hosts, tested their knowledge and earned Max Heath Postal Institute™ gold and platinum certifications.
New Illinois law mandates marketers disclosure affiliations
Dec 1, 2023
It requires, among other things, anyone sending a letter or postcard asking a consumer to contact the sender “by mail, telephone, email, website or other prescribed means” and offering products ...
Postal losses continue despite sharp postage increases
Dec 1, 2023
The U.S. Postal Service posted a $6.5 billion loss in fiscal year 2023.
The end is near ... Are you ready to file postage statements digitally?
Dec 1, 2023
Emailing hard-copy statements, scans or PDFs of statements will not be acceptable. The new process will require publishers to enter data directly into USPS’ PostalOne system.
