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:

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

USPS announces final end date for hard-copy address notices

Mar 2, 2023

USPS had earlier indicated it would end the printed notices for all mailers, but in its final rule ...

Better and more visible data on service failures to come

Mar 1, 2023

The U.S. Postal Service will soon be required to provide an online reporting system that will detail service standard achievements and failures for Periodicals and other mail classes.

Converting from Sacks to Tubs

Mar 1, 2023

By this publication, if you’ve been mailing your non-DDU or Exceptional Dispatch newspapers in sacks, you’ve had to convert to using flats tubs for that mail.

SACKS: February 21 END DATE

Feb 16, 2023

The USPS Postal Service will enforce a February 21 date for ending acceptance of mailing sacks for newspaper Periodicals.

Electronic Address Change updates requirement: new implementation date July 9, 2023

Feb 7, 2023

MEMBER ALERT ⁠— The U.S. Postal Service is delaying a requirement for publishers to receive address change information digitally until this summer, according to a USPS announcement today.