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Presentation of National Newspaper Association. To Mailers Technical Advisory Committee May 19, 2005. About NNA. 1885 2,500 newspaper members; primarily weeklies Primarily family owned Headquarters: Columbia, MO Washington office: Arlington, VA. NNA’s presence in Washington.
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Presentation of National Newspaper Association To Mailers Technical Advisory Committee May 19, 2005
About NNA • 1885 • 2,500 newspaper members; primarily weeklies • Primarily family owned • Headquarters: Columbia, MO • Washington office: Arlington, VA
NNA’s presence in Washington • Postal policy • Postal rates • The business of publishing • First Amendment and Open Government • NNA’s Congressional Action Team has members in every state and virtually every Congressional district • PL 108-18: 19 co-sponsors in a day
NNA’s Mailing Profile • Heavy within county mailers –NNA’s primary focus • Often the largest customers of entry post office • Outside county mail for outer delivery zone • ECR for shoppers
In County Mail • “It is well known that post roads and post offices have increased rapidly within a few years and that almost every person can have convenient access to papers by mail; and the printers know that the New York papers are made up from the daily papers, and hence they can afford them at a lower price than we can…(T)he circulation of our country papers is rapidly diminishing and ere long many of them must be consigned to oblivion.” A New York editor, 1827
How we work • Mail.dat – nada • No scholarly studies • No studies period, except a rare member survey • No PAC • No former Congressmen • How do we do it?
Teaching tools • Monthly column Pub Aux • Troubleshooting • Case work • Numerous seminars a year
Advocacy • MTAC membership since • Periodicals Service Improvement Team • POAC • Flats Automation Work Group • Flats Presort Optimization Work Group • Package Integrity Work Group • ePub Watch Work Group, etc. etc.
Concerns and Anxieties • CSRS • The cost of rates—and rate cases • FSS, maybe • The future for service • NNA: a majority of One. In County mail is less than 1% of domestic mail volume. • But it brings people to the mailbox!
Tonda Rush • 703 465 8808 –NNA in Washington • Tonda@nna.org • President, American PressWorks, Inc., trush@americanpressworks.org.