National Newspaper Association
Protecting, Promoting and Enhancing Community Newspapers Since 1885
Postal Tips
Consulting assistance is an NNA-member benefit. Membership also includes a subscription to Publishers’ Auxiliary, featuring the monthly column, Postal Tips. We can help with:
- Interpretations of postal rules
- Understanding how to enter mail properly
- Assess steps you may be able to improve slow service
- Know whether you are eligible for Periodicals permits
- And unsnarl a host of other conundrums that arise when newspapers (and their shoppers/TMCs) are in the mail
New Illinois law mandates marketers disclosure affiliations
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 ...
Do it now!
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.
Looking back at events that have caused continuing postal increases for mailers
Oct 1, 2023
What does NNA expect to see from USPS in the next 12 months?
USPS’ new network and how the changes will impact newspapers
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.
Marketing Mail rates soar for heavier pieces
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 ...
Rates rise again in July; Here’s the break down
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.
How to get help from USPS
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 ...
It is clear that USPS will be altered forever by 2023-24
May 1, 2023
It is hard to predict right now what further hurdles the Postal Service might throw at newspaper mailers. But it is possible to toss out some good guesses.
Changes are happening; be ready
Apr 1, 2023
The eDoc submission process includes confirmation that Move Update standards for address correction have been met and that the carrier route accuracy standard has been met for each address in the mailing.
