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