Postal Tips

Consulting assistance is an NNA-member benefit. Membership also includes a subscription to Publishers’ Auxiliary, featuring the monthly column, Postal Tips. 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 Periodicals permits
And unsnarl a host of other conundrums that arise when newspapers (and their shoppers/TMCs) are in the mail

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 ...

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.

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.

Postal Tips: The July rate increase is here

Jul 1, 2025

July 13 will usher in the ‘Mount Everest’ of postal rate increases, representing the highest peak of increases experienced to date. These increases are hitting Periodicals especially hard, ...

Postal Tips: Thoughts on the new postmaster general

Jun 1, 2025

I wish the new PMG success in remaking the Postal Service into a sustainable organization that efficiently and promptly delivers the mail to every address at a fair price. I believe that’s not possible ...

How to make USPS’ Address Change Service work best for you

May 1, 2025

The NNA Postal Hotline has gotten a lot of traffic lately regarding issues that members are experiencing with address corrections.

Some alternatives exist for situations where plastic strapping isn't practical

Apr 1, 2025

By July 1, 2025, mailers of Periodicals newspapers and Marketing Mail shoppers or other flat newspaper-sized mailings will have to cross-strap bundles that go through mail processing. Plastic straps or ...