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
Jan 4, 2021
NNA Chair Brett Wesner, president of Wesner Publications in Cordell, Oklahoma, today expressed his thanks to the Washington Post and its postal beat expert Jacob Bogage for a revealing look at the problems ...
May 27, 2020
Reps Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, chair of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee; and Gerald Connolly, D-Virginia, chair of the Government Operations Subcommittee, said they believed the coronavirus ...
Apr 14, 2020
Hold Congress accountable, newspaper people! There is no good reason to allow USPS to falter.
Jan 21, 2021
NNA members are reminded that USPS rates will increase this coming Sunday.
Jan 12, 2021
Postal Regulatory Commission order could lead to postage increases of 45% over five years, representing existential threat to newspapers
Jan 6, 2021
The possibility of 7-9% annual postage increases under a new Postal Regulatory Commission order threatens mailed newspapers in 2021.
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.
Dec 9, 2020
The PRC completed a three-year-long examination of a 2006 inflation-based price cap on postage increases. The National Newspaper Association has spoken the PRC on numerous occasions about the need ...
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 ...