3/31/2015 – Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson today filed a lawsuit against several Oregon-based companies that perpetrated a nationwide scheme to mislead consumers into “renewing” their newspaper and magazine subscriptions at significantly higher rates than those charged by publishers. The companies got consumers to pay money by sending “renewal” notices that falsely appeared to be […]
The U.S. Postal Service should evaluate the impact of slower service to newspaper subscribers before proceeding with 2015 closings of mail processing plants, National Newspaper Association President John Edgecombe Jr., said this week. Edgecombe is the publisher of The Nebraska Signal in Geneva, NE. NNA seconded the concern expressed by the USPS Office of the […]
USPS Wants to Close Huron Facility (July 2, 2014) South Dakota Newspaper Association Board of Directors on July 2 issued a statement objecting to the U.S. Postal Service’s plan that it will consolidate more than 80 mail processing facilities across the country, including the Dakota Central Processing and Distribution Facility at Huron. “This latest announcement […]
Households with Internet access tend to receive more magazines and newspapers by mail than those without, according to the Postal Service’s Household Diary Study. Wired households in 2012 received an average of 42 periodicals compared to 36 for those without Internet access. In 2012, “a household member ordered and paid for 45 percent of the […]
Take The Bullard Banner News in Texas. After the nearest USPS plant closed in June, the weekly paper’s route to local mailboxes now detours through a plant 120 miles away. One subscriber reported getting no paper for weeks—then three in a day. “I can’t begin to count how many have said ‘if you can’t fix […]
The National Newspaper Association issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, June 14 —National Newspaper Association (NNA), a community newspaper organization of over 2,000 members, today filed its formal opposition to the United States Postal Service’s proposal to end Saturday mail delivery. NNA has intervened on behalf of its newspapers in a proceeding before the Postal […]