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.
House Oversight Government Operations Subcommittee to hear from postal stakeholders
Jun 19, 2025
This is the first time an industry witness will be included in several years and Association for Postal Commerce CEO and President Mike Plunkett will be a featured witness to speak to mailer concerns. ...
USPS Periodicals will require cross-strap bundles for mail processing, effective July 1
Jun 17, 2025
This is a friendly reminder that by July 1, 2025, USPS mailers of Periodicals newspapers and Marketing Mail shoppers or other flat newspaper-sized mailings will have to cross-strap bundles that go through ...
Another unprecedented postage increase is on the way — demand action from Congress to replace USPS leadership
Jun 3, 2025
Call to Action: We need Congress to step in and demand that USPS pause the rate hikes NOW
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 ...
Call to action: USPS SERVES US Act
May 15, 2025
The USPS SERVES US Act is the only bill in Congress that would halt the destructive postage hikes and service cuts, but with all of the controversy in Washington, we need as many people as possible to ...
USPS Board of Governors selects new postmaster general
May 9, 2025
Today, the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors announced the selection of David Steiner as the nation’s 76th postmaster general. Steiner has served on the board of FedEx and is a former CEO of ...
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.
NNA applauds introduction of the USPS SERVES US Act
Apr 24, 2025
Today, Representative Sam Graves (R-Missouri-06) introduced the USPS Services Enhancement and Regulatory Viability Expansion and Sustainability for the U.S. Act (USPS SERVES US Act).
