Promoting news literacy, protecting the First Amendment
and enhancing the capabilities of community newspapers
The National Newspaper Association provides postal consulting services for its members.
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Consulting assistance is a member-benefit. Membership includes a subscription to Publishers’ Auxiliary, featuring the monthly column, Postal Tips.
Feb 1, 2024
If you’re looking to increase your subscription rates, you might be inclined to leave your out-of-county rates alone, or increase modestly.
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.
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 ...
Nov 1, 2023
We’ve been submitting our mailing statements electronically for several years now, but if our newspaper was still using hard copy forms, here’s how I would make the change.
Oct 1, 2023
What does NNA expect to see from USPS in the next 12 months?
Sep 1, 2023
The Postal Service began talking about re-inventing its delivery network about this time last year and has already embarked on making changes to a number of processing plants around the country.
Aug 1, 2023
Because the rate tables were not released until a few days before my deadline for the July issue of Pub Aux, I did not have a chance to analyze the changes in Marketing Mail rates. The bottom line is that ...
Jul 1, 2023
As you undoubtedly know, the next postal rate increase takes effect July 9, unless some problem on the Postal Service’s end delays implementation.
Jun 1, 2023
Perhaps the most common issue is the issue of slow service to a subscriber or group of subscribers. There was a time when you could get your local post office to put what was called a publication watch ...