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.
Important Update: Periodicals Mailing Privileges Application Process
Nov 14, 2025
The U.S. Postal Service, in an Industry Alert dated Nov. 13, made some changes to the Periodicals permit application process.
Delivery problems: What you can do, and what NNA does
Nov 1, 2025
Changes to the delivery network, USPS staffing problems and policy changes have all resulted in worse delivery times, particularly for out-of-county mail. The recent changes that add another day to the ...
Issue brief available: Improving Investment Disclosures Act
Oct 7, 2025
Background: Large financial institutions have been working to allow electronic delivery of mandated disclosures for investor information. The most recent effort is S. 1877, The Improving Disclosure for ...
Postal Tips: Addressing addresses and formats
Oct 1, 2025
How your mail is prepared affects both the cost and the timely delivery of your mailing. Better–prepared mailings with higher quality addresses require less work for USPS, and cost less in postage.
USPS announces no January increase for newspaper postage
Sep 24, 2025
Today, the USPS announced that it will not raise postage prices for Market Dominant mail products including newspaper postage in January.
Postal Tips: How to measure advertising content in your mailings
Sep 1, 2025
The Postal Service assesses different rates based upon advertising and non-advertising content. That lower non-advertising content rate is a recognition of the public service aspect of the news and information ...
Postal Tips: The case might represent the first instance in decades of USPS’s being held accountable for failures
Aug 1, 2025
Lower courts dismissed her civil rights claim, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said USPS was liable for refusing mail delivery. The Postal Service is appealing.
NNA pledges to collaborate with new Postmaster General Steiner
Jul 14, 2025
The leadership of the National Newspaper Association sent a letter welcoming new Postmaster General David Steiner to his position. We stressed that community newspapers are a vital resource ...
