Are there any city ordinances to prevent unauthorized delivery?

Wow, I am about to complain about the same thing in my neigborhood. I've taken plenty of pictures as proof.

The delivery has continued despite my efforts to, e-mails and ophone calls. On my last encounter with the Al Dia staff, I was forwarded to their "escalation line". Any advice on how to make this littering stop?

I live in Stevens Park Village in Oak Cliff and I called 469-977-3747 and I haven't received any more unwanted papers in Spanish since.

Seems to be an on-going problem, one that is currently being fought in North Oak Cliff. We have called and emailed Al Dia, their parent company Dallas Morning News, reported them to the city, even contacted our city council person to no avail. Maybe a class action lawsuit is in order.

I contacted every e-mail address on the "Contact Us" section of their website and this is the response:

I have forwarded your email to my Managing Editor and Al Dia’s Publisher.

I am very sorry about this inconvenience.

Paulina Magdaleno

Lifestyles editor

So far there has been a paper delivered in my alley so I don't know if was intended for me or the neighbor. But I have not received a paper on my lawn.

Hope this helps...

oops-spoke too soon. Found a newspaper in my driveway this Saturday morning. I'll contact Paulina...again.

After contacting the city and city council we have basically been told that the Dallas Morning News, who owns and distributes Al Dia has no intention of changing their delivery practices. It is obvious that petitions need to be started. News agencies (Other than Channel 8 as Belo owns them as well as the DMN) here about this. We have even discussed a class-action lawsuit.
It's pretty hypocritical of the Dallas Morning News to print articles bemoaning littering in the city of Dallas when they themselves are responsible for a lot of it. See the photo, count the lovely yellow wrappers in front of this North Oak Cliff house. Just think, there are dozens of houses just like this with just as many papers in those yards as well. The sidewalks, gutters and streets contain them too.

I collected 8 of these a placed them on the Dallas Morning News main office just over a week ago. I will contiune to give them thier paper back as long as they continue to dump it on my lawn after my repeated attempts to have it discontinued have failed.

I've thought about doing that so many times...luckily they stopped delivering to my neighborhood...so far.

Good Luck!

My neighborhood in Far East Dallas is experiencing the same littering problem with the DMN "Briefing" newspaper. Is there any hope of getting the DMN to stop throwing unwanted papers of whatever type?

It's funny that the Dallas Morning News has had to raise it's rates, cut down the size of their paper but still has enough money to waste throwing these free papers into the yards of folks who absolutely DON'T WANT THEM.

As of 09/22/2010 these yellow-bagged nuisances are back in the yards of North Oak Cliff. Calls are being made again. But this time not just to the Dallas Morning News but to the city to report litter and to media outlets to help shine some light on this matter. I urge every resident in every community that receives this paper and doesn't want it to file a litter report with your city for each paper. The DMN doesn't mind raising rates for 'the news' because of money problems but can afford to litter our neighborhood with free spanish-language ones? Maybe some fines for littering added to their expense will stop this wasteful behavior.

I'm dealing with the same thing (also in Oak Cliff), even after many, many calls to the ineffective staff at Al Dia, over a couple of years. Maybe this is a job for the "What's Bugging You?" feature at Fox 4 News. They take on problems just like this.

Channel 4...great idea.

After checking around it seems no news team in this market has the gumption to take on the 800lb gorilla known as Belo and hold responsible it's irresponsible littering of our neighborhood. The bombardment continues. North Oak Cliff area got dusted on Monday AND Wed. morning by the yellow-bagged scourge. I don't see this issue getting resolved by the city (complaints fall on deaf / ineffective ears or media exposure. I'm at a loss as what to do now.

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I live around madera/mcmillan. I no longer get the "Al Dia" papers, thank goodness!!!!!!!
Now, how can we get henderson road fixed? Andres family can you answer that? You all now plan a new extension of your aparments. Can you see how bad the road has become? Of course not, because you just want to keep the lease money coming in without thinking of the resources that are being tortured.....F@$%#&!

Any lawyers out there that want to help out? Cease and Desist letters? Class action lawsuit? Anything?

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I actually on thr other hand want to find where these papers are being delivered!!! Lots of good coupons in em............. wouldnt bother me one bit if I could be saving money!!! :)

Unfortunately, the city code allows for delivery of newspapers to inhabited homes. Not flyers or ads. So newspapers that are free because of paid advertisements fall between the cracks of the Chapter 7A-14 Ordinance and are allowable. Contact your City Council representative and ask for a change in the Code.

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I would love to see this addressed as littering. After months of emailing them they stopped for about two months, and then started up again. I have gotten warning notices on my door for leaving my trash bin at the curb until I get home from work, but these people can toss trash in my yard any time they like with no consequences.

The Al Dia newspaper is a bunch of ads with a spanish language newspaper wrapped aroud them. They call themselves "free news" and so can be thrown onto your lawn twice a week without breaking any littering laws. When they pick your neighborhood they deliver it to every house. Most English speaking people open it and see Spanish text and throw it away. There is a small paragraph in English stating that to stop delivery you must call their office and "opt out". I have opted out 12 times and they still throw it in my rosebushes occasionally. Since they are "free news" they do not have to do a criminal backgroud check or other employment info on employees. So the guy throwing trash on your lawn at 3 am is probably an illegal alien wanted for murder in mexico. The Dallas City Council says they are powerless to stop this, which means they get free ads for themselves and family and friends. Al Dia boasts it can deliver your advertisement to 300,000 homes the next day whether they want it or not.

I would like to know also what exact locations is this being a problem, I can volunteer to take all your unwanted newspapers. There are awesome deals and coupons inside and unfortunately where I live there's a lot of coupaners that beat me to the news stands. I can pick up every Saturdays with out a problem :) you can email me at undeadhope@ymail.com

Its a shame.....here it is THREE YEARS later and STILL, this crap is littering streets so people who do not WANT this pulication has to clean up their mess!

May I suggest, that when you receive an unwanted, litter paper from Dallas Morning News, you lovingly select it from its landing place upon your property and return it to them by substituting it for their regular paper in one of their commercial vending displays.

Although they do have a small recyling value, if you have called to opt out and have emailed to opt out, yet they insist they are valuable enough to deliver freely to the non-receptive public, then trading them for a rack of the full papers seems like a fair trade practice.

Does anyone want to join me in a class action lawsuit against Aldia newspapers total disregard of tossing unwanted newspapers??????Our property is being deliberately trashed both in my lawn and all my neighbors lawns ? Aldia (Dallas Morning News) trashes out our yards and streets with this garbage and NO AMOUNT of contacting them gets any results.Everytime i call i get 1 of 3 answers:
1.We show no record of your call ( Despite of many,many phoned in complaints )
2.We will have the supervisor call you ( They never do)
3.We have made a note of it and in 2 weeks you will not get a paper thrown again.( They just keep throwing )
If i wekly took garbage and tossed it on the front lawn of Aidia/Dallas Morning News i would be facing a pretty hefty fine for littering.

I've called them AT LEAST 6 times asking them to STOP delivery to my house. They are still littering my yard regularly!

Hi there,

So I have seen many neighborhood forums and blogs as well as city council transcripts, all addressing this general issue, not just with Al Dia, but with all of the free newspapers that are delivered to these areas. As an empathetic neighbor with time on weekends, I usually suit up, load my beagle, Jackson, in my two seater convertible, and I simply pick up the free papers left out at the end of the day. I try to go to different locations each week, but I'm in the North Dallas/Plano area, so I tend to stay in that vicinity. Anywhoo, I just wanted to put it out there that I DO do this, voluntarily of course, and either use the papers for packing material for my business or just recycle. Also, the coupons in some of these papers are valuable grocery coupons and the food bank as well as military families (just to mention a couple) can benefit greatly from having them donated. Also, couponers like myself can actually use them to go buy the things that our community needs, then bring the items in to donate. So, I guess what I'm asking here is: does anyone actually MIND me doing this? I definitely do not want to creep anyone out or worse, get arrested for looking "suspicious". I can't find any laws on this so in the meantime, if you see me and my dog in your neighborhood, come say hello, and dump your trash in my car. I'll take care of it ;)

If any thoughts/ideas, please reply to this post. Thanks!!

Anyone have a problem with newspaper going to waste let me know where to pick them up. I can put those Sunday coupons to use. I don't care if it means taking all weeks worth. I have tried everywhere to see where the rack locations to Al Dia are located and no luck. So let me know. Thanks

Join me!!! I clean up all over those neighborhoods and could use an "assistant" every once in a while!! Nobody cares; to tell the honest truth I have gotten some other great perks from doing this! (Other than the obvious lol) Last week I got some perfectly good furniture for free! People BEG you to take their stuff! And I don't think Al Dia or the Briefing are on newsstands. You have to live in certain zip codes to get them, and even then it's kinda hit or miss. I've been doing this now since July and honestly love it. I make friends, meet other peoples' dogs (mine comes with me) and it's an amazing workout! :))

What area do you pick them up at?

If you dont want your Saturday paper the one with the coupon inserts ill take them.

https://www.facebook.com/stopaldia

Send them to me :)

there's this lady in mesquite selling the coupon the in the newspaper she sells them to people and she makes of money of the coupons I wish this would stop because we go to try to get the coupons and they're not there and I found out who we do they're selling it to people and making money off the newspaperI wish this would stop

there's this lady in mesquite selling the coupon the in the newspaper she sells them to people and she makes of money of the coupons I wish this would stop because we go to try to get the coupons and they're not there and I found out who we do they're selling it to people and making money off the newspaperI wish this would stop

Come to 75214 near JL Long and Woodrow Wilson schools. The neighborhood (which is NOT predominantly Hispanic) is overflowing with them. I have contacted Al Dia repeatedly, this last time getting a promise it would stop permanently. Only 2 months later, it's back. I'm going to start collecting them and dumping them at their offices. This is ridiculous

Please reserve your unwanted papers for me. I will pick them up weekly after they have been delivered on Saturdays. God Bless, 903-287-3464

this is disturbing and I too have the same issue, I get the english version and the spanish version. I don't need either one. My street looks awful because of this mess. It is not the paper, the plastic is non-recyclable and does not biodegrade. I say we compile them all and dump them in front of The Dallas Morning News office! I don't want any soliciting at my house.

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