Protecting, Promoting and Enhancing Community Newspapers Since 1885
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:
On the Postal Service’s Mailers Technical Advisory Committee
Before the Postal Regulatory Commission
With the House Oversight and Government Committee
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Some of NNA’s achievements include:
Preserving the lowest commercial postage rate in the system—the Within County privilege—for community newspapers for more than 120 years
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
Making sure a newspaper does not lose the privilege just because a postal carrier’s route wanders outside a county line
Gaining an extension for the requirement to shift to a new Intelligent Mail Barcode for automation discounts
Preserving next-day or better service standards for periodicals entered at local post offices or mail distribution facilities
Apr 28, 2022
On Friday, April 22, USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy joined the agenda of the National Newspaper Association Foundation’s upcoming Annual Convention & Trade Show — to be held Oct. 6-8, ...
Apr 21, 2022
Registration is open for the second session in the Max Heath Postal Institute series, Understanding Periodicals.
Apr 6, 2022
The U.S. Postal Service today announced it would hike Periodicals postage rates an average of 8.5% for Periodicals on July 10, 2022, disappointing publishers who expected passage of the Postal Service ...
Apr 6, 2022
President Joe Biden today signed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, which implements reforms of federal employee benefit programs and shaves more than $50 billion off the USPS balance sheet. It also ...
Apr 1, 2022
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — The National Newspaper Association capped a decade-and-a-half legislative campaign in March when Congress passed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022.
Apr 1, 2022
“It is like the story of the spider and the centipede. The spider said to the centipede: ‘I have enough trouble keeping my eight legs working together. How do you manage 100 of them?’ ...
Mar 8, 2022
The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, HR 3076, cleared the U.S. Senate today, sending legislation to President Biden that would give the U.S. Postal Service relief from a 16-year-old requirement to fund ...
Mar 1, 2022
Pictured are front and back images of the National Newspaper Association Foundation’s gift with donations of $50 or more to the Max Heath Postal Institute™, to-go mugs with the saying, “Coffee. ...
Mar 1, 2022
Congress missed an opportunity in February to finally sew up the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, legislation nearly 10 years in the making. After passing the House with a bipartisan vote, HR 3076 met ...