National Newspaper Association Foundation
Promoting news literacy, protecting the First Amendment
and enhancing the capabilities of community newspapers
Postal Tips
The National Newspaper Association provides postal consulting services for its members.
We can help with:
- Interpretations of postal rules
- Understanding how to enter mail properly
- Assess steps you may be able to improve slow service
- Know whether you are eligible for Perodicals permits
- And unsnarl a host of other conundrums that arise when newspapers (and their shoppers/TMCs) are in the mail
Consulting assistance is a member-benefit. Membership includes a subscription to Publishers’ Auxiliary, featuring the monthly column, Postal Tips.
Most efficient newspaper and shopper mail could escape the worst of a harsh rate case
Jul 1, 2021
An extreme second rate case this year by new leadership in the Postal Service is bad news all around, if approved as proposed for August 29, 2021. However, if implemented, the most efficient mail would ...
Gaining new subscribers through sampling
Jun 1, 2021
A good way to increase your mail subscriptions is by sending sample copies of your newspaper to non-subscribers letting them see what they’re missing by not regularly reading the paper. Many publishers ...
Must-do list for printing/mailing plants
May 1, 2021
Newspapers, share this with your printer/mailer
Ready or not, Seamless Acceptance for Full Service Mailers is coming
Apr 1, 2021
Now, it appears that all Full Service mailers entering currently through their local BMEU, likely their local post office, will be verified using only automated sampling and verification processes beginning ...
Postal Q&A: COVID subscriber/requester expiration extended
Mar 1, 2021
Sample large number on small circ pubs
Postal Q&A: What are the steps to take when merging 2 smaller papers into 1?
Feb 1, 2021
NNA members jump hurdles while USPS handles surge in packages.
Higher postage rates are coming — here’s what you can do about it
Jan 5, 2021
NNA members surveyed in August indicated they were seeing service problems across the board in all mail classes, even for Within County.
Electronic paid/requester subscriptions can count as valuable add-ons, depending on circumstances
Dec 1, 2020
The ability to count electronic subscriptions on the annual postal Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation, PS Form 3526, has been established since 2012, when a third page was added to the ...
2021 postage rates for local newspapers mostly same as 2020, plus long-sought flats tray discount granted
Oct 30, 2020
Requester pubs, shoppers also fare well.
