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The "Midtown Raleigh News" continues to litter the neighborhood with unsolicited and unwanted ad package. The paper flies everywhere, the bags fill with water and debris and this trash piles up everywhere. But they just keep dropping these all over the neighborhood.
I request that they be required to clean up all the trash they've left and stop dumping on people's property unless they have permission from the owners to leave their ad packet.
16 Comments
DoWhat'sRight (Registered User)
Raleigh1 <small class="fwn">(Guest)</small>
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Judge (Guest)
theartist (Guest)
Closed City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
A number of See Click Fix issues have gotten lost in the system, and we are just now recovering them. My apologies for the very slow response to this post!
The City has contacted the News and Observer. This is a problem elsewhere in the City. They have agreed to stop these distributions when requested. Please contact the N&O circulation division if you do not wish to have this paper delivered.
Reopened Birds Eye (Guest)
Closed City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
I've contacted the Midtown Raleigh News circulation director and made note of your concerns. I have also spoken with the circulation desk at the newspaper who indicate that if you contact them as individuals they will stop delivery to your specific address right away.(http://www.newsobserver.com/about/contact/)
Please work directly through the newspaper. We are limited by free speech issues to take more general action to limit circulation of their paper, but you as individuals can make sure to stop delivery to your own addresses, and we will continue to work with the circulation editor to have an impact on the broadcast delivery of these papers.
Reopened Birds Eye (Guest)
Maybe you can't stop them from throwing unwanted papers on our property, but most certainly you can hold them responsible for the cleanup when these papers litter the neighborhood.
Please require them to send someone to pick up all of the unwanted rain soaked and decaying papers that litter our neighborhood.
Closed City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
Reopened Birds Eye (Guest)
Based on what you've told me, it is fine for me to pick up all the trash the N&O has left around the neighborhood and it is legal for me to dump it on the lawns of the N&O employee's homes -- and YOUR home -- as long as I'm not caught doing it?
Please reply with your clarification.
Closed City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
Throw it back (Guest)
It would also be helpful if when you do contact the N&O they actually STOP delivering it... I've called and emailed multiple times and it does no good. I've started just throwing them in my car.... then when I am on Martin Street I just chuck them back in the N&O garage.
I don't mind doing things the right way and going through the proper channels ... but if the N&O persists in delivering even when told not to - I will as well.
Reopened Judge (Guest)
I challenge the legality of what they're doing when people have requested that they stop delivering to their property and they continue.
Additionally, they are also throwing the papers on the city streets.
Something should be done on this issue.
Closed City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
The regional manager of circulation for the N&O indicates that you all should contact him directly and he will try to resolve these issues:
Jerry E. Ritter
Regional Director of Distribution Services
McClatchy Newspapers - North Carolina/South Carolina
The News&Observer(Raleigh)/The Charlotte Observer/Rock Hill Herald/The Sun News(Myrtle Beach)
The State(Columbia,SC)/The Beaufort Gazette/The Island Packet(Hilton Head, SC)
919.829.4718 Office
919.829.8907 Fax
jerry.ritter@newsobserver.com