The Newspaper Association of America is disappointed in the November 15 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejecting NAA’s challenge to the special rate deal, called a negotiated services agreement (NSA), between the United State Postal Service and Valassis Direct Mail. …
The court agreed with NAA that the commission “did not meaningfully consider the impact that the agreement would have on Valassis’s competitors.” But the court concluded that the language in a 2006 amendment to the postal laws is “ambiguous” as to whether the commission must assess harm to competitor of the NSA-favored mailer when considering whether the agreement would cause “unreasonable harm in the marketplace.” …
The court declined to second-guess the commission’s determination that the Postal Service will benefit from the agreement, even though the Postal Service itself predicted only a small net benefit, which will be wiped out if newspapers are forced to decrease their own mailings in response.
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