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
Feb 1, 2024
Save the date for the 138th Annual Convention & Trade Show: September 26-28, 2024, in Omaha, Nebraska
Feb 1, 2024
This is the fourth increase in 18 months — the most frequent mailing rate–hike schedule in the Postal Service’s 248-year history.
Feb 1, 2024
If you’re looking to increase your subscription rates, you might be inclined to leave your out-of-county rates alone, or increase modestly.
Feb 1, 2024
For three straight weeks, our local papers weren't delivered anywhere close to on time from the United States Postal Service Toledo Distribution Center, and we didn't know why. We didn't know what suddenly ...
Jan 23, 2024
To provide mailers additional time to comply with the discontinuance of hardcopy postage statements policy change, there will be a limited-time grace period.
Jan 4, 2024
The U.S. Postal Service is reminding commercial mailers that the end of near for hard-copy postage statements.
Jan 1, 2024
Waiting for invoice payments to show up in your mailbox … and waiting … and waiting? There might be a reason for that, and it isn’t because your customers are suddenly slow–payers.
Dec 1, 2023
Rush became NNA’s Chief Executive Officer in 1992 when NNA had a staff of 20 in Washington, D.C.
Dec 1, 2023
Newspaper professionals attended hours of Periodicals training with the NNA Postal Team and hosts, tested their knowledge and earned Max Heath Postal Institute™ gold and platinum certifications.