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?

Al dia doesn't give a rats behind whether you want this paper or not. They hire illiterate people to wander your neighborhoods at 2 a.m and sling these things into your lawn. You can call them all you want and they will lie to you all they want. "We will put you on our list", "We don't have anything to do with delivering these papers, it's done by private contractor". Al dia, it's staff and contractors are pathetic losers.

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.

They threw their trash om my lawn again this morning, so I called to "opt out" .....................again ........ for the 12th time. The person who took the call was, as usual, courteous and polite, but almost made me irate when she said they only keep records of "opt outs" for 1 month, and that showed I had only "opted out" 3 times in that month, not the 12 I had claimed. They threw it on my car 3 times and broke the windshield wiper blade once, they throw it in the middle of the street, they throw it to vacant houses and even to vacant lots with no houses. There is no recourse if they ignore your opt out, so why not ignore it.
They make lots of money delivering this free trash. They charge big bucks for advertisements and boast they will deliver your ad to 300,000 homes the next day, whether the homeowner wants it or not. By wrapping all these ads in a free newspaper they can claim they are delivering free "news" not ads, so educational news (trash) can be thrown onto your lawn, by an illegal alien wanted for murder in mexico, at 3 in the morning.
Of course it would be inappropriate for the city councilpersons who allow this to receive free advertisements in payment, so it is probably free ads for any company they "suggest" after that company makes a big donation to their election campaign.
What they should have done at the start, and should do now, NOW, is deliver this free trash once or twice, with an "opt in" option. They can make it front page news in their newspaper that the homeowner must "opt in" if they want to continue having this trash thrown onto their lawn.
Then if they ignore those "opt in" options, the citizens of dallas will not have to go pull this busted open bunch of ads out of their rosebushes twice a week.

JMO.

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.