With a fine of $20 for each violation and double for repeated violation. It would be a violation if the paper is left in the yard or ground. Many newspapers provide receptacles that are used for delivery. Which does not require use of plastic bags unless the weather might cause damage.

The subscribers should be complaining about the delivery which would also be more effective.

I told the company that was delivering ads and throwing them in my driveway to stop delivering.

been worthless. It seems a simple ban on plastic bags would end the problem tomorrow.

Is there some law against that or something? Up here, we get the weekly circulars every Tuesday, delivered by our paper person, no plastic bags involved. Tho, we're rural, so that might be why they do it that way.

I'll for sure share my opinion at the link you've provided. I imagine that a normal person walking around Tacoma littering with their personal garbage would be found, stopped, and cited pretty quickly, so why is McClatchy allowed to do such a thing?

You can't put anything in a mailbox if you don't pay postage on it.

We get the weekly RedPlum with all of the store ads in our mailboxes once a week (delivered by our mailwoman)...why couldn't McClatchy pony-up the postage for something like that? Or, better yet, what's wrong with them using their own paper boxes to stuff all of that crap into?

I think the answer to my question might be that nobody has newspaper boxes anymore, subscriptions to the Tribune are probably way down and failing, and the McClatchy Newscorp is trying to please what few advertisers it has left by dumping their garbage ads anyway they can get away with.

Going directly to those companies and businesses who still want their ads circulated in such a manner, hurting them in the pocketbook, is probably what will eventually stop McClatchy, the way I see it.