Nonprofit Mail Cost Brief

Written with Federation of Community Libraries Executive Director Lucinda Farrow-Mbatha, whose federation mails 1.1 million pieces a year, this brief walks through what the proposed Nonprofit Mail Stability Act's rate schedule would cost a large-volume nonprofit mailer over its three-year phase-in.

The brief breaks the increase down by mail class, compares the phased schedule against a hypothetical single-year jump, and closes with guidance on what a mailer of any size can do now — before the phase-in begins — to reduce exposure without cutting mail volume outright. NANA's public policy team wrote it as a companion to its ongoing advocacy on nonprofit postal rate reform, translating a rate schedule written in statutory text into a dollar figure a mail-dependent association can actually budget against.

Published by NANA's research team as part of the brief series.