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1 Presentation of National Newspaper Association To Mailers Technical Advisory Committee May 19, 2005

2 About NNA 1885 2,500 newspaper members; primarily weeklies Primarily family owned Headquarters: Columbia, MO Washington office: Arlington, VA

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4 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

5 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

6 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

7 Numbers of Titles Year Total Dailies Total Weeklies 199615206580 199715096581 199814896642 199914806646 200014806579 200114686476 200214576699 200314566704

8 Circulation (in millions) DailiesWeeklies 199656.945.9 199756.747.3 199856.148.7 199955.949.1 200055.747.9 200155.547.7 200255.150 200355.150.2

9 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?

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11 Teaching tools Monthly column Pub Aux Troubleshooting Case work Numerous seminars a year

12 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.

13 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!

14 Tonda Rush 703 465 8808 –NNA in Washington Tonda@nna.org President, American PressWorks, Inc., trush@americanpressworks.org. trush@americanpressworks.org


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