#Detroit free press delivery area free

“I have called and emailed as suggested 5 times and it still comes… It is unwanted, unwelcome trespassing and litter on my private property.”

#Detroit free press delivery area free

“What do I need to do to stop this?” a recent visitor to the Free Press’ Facebook page asked. “It does not prohibit us in the future, if this new system doesn’t work, from writing a littering ticket again and telling them the system isn’t working and the residents are still getting these papers,” township supervisor Chris Barnett said in announcing the settlement at a recent township board of trustees meeting.īut since the resolution involves setting up a special, dedicated opt-out hotline for residents of one township, that raises the question – what’s the point of the regular opt-out phone number for everyone else who’s not party to this settlement, if their opt-out requests aren’t being honored? But under the terms of the settlement, the paper will identify a point person whom Orion township can call directly to ensure that opt-out requests are acted upon. The paper says it already gives all residents the ability to call and opt out of receiving the Select. “The township agreed to stop ticketing, and to work with the Free Press to address any delivery complaints, which I understand have ceased,” Detroit Free Press attorney Herschel Fink told Coupons in the News. After several township residents complained that the deliveries kept on coming after they had opted out, the township ticketed the paper for littering.Īnd the paper responded by suing the township last year for violating its right to free speech.

The Detroit Free Press newspaper and the suburban township of Orion have agreed to resolve their dispute over the “Detroit Free Press Select”, a bagged bundle of circulars, ads and coupon inserts delivered to homes throughout the Detroit area. That was the question raised in a lawsuit that’s now been settled. But if it doesn’t – whose rights take precedence? And you have the right to ask for it to stop. A newspaper has the right to toss a packet of ads and coupons onto your doorstep.