How To Stop Blue & Yellow Bag Delivery 

The blue and yellow bags with advertisements are not considered litter because they are protected by freedom of speech. So when you receive the yellow and blue bags of marketing information in your driveway, you have these following options:

1. Pick it up and read it and then recycle the paper curbside and the plastic bag with other grocery bags at one of the local grocery stores.

2. Pick up the bags and immediately recycle the paper and plastic bags.

3.Contact the following persons to be placed on the DO NOT DELIVER list and keep record of your contact.  A certified letter will let you know that your letter was received. Listed below are the addresses, phone numbers and e-mails for contacts for both the Blue Bags from the Toledo Blade and the Yellow Bags from the Toledo Free Press.

BLUE BAGS --Blade Marketing Fliers
Joseph Zerbey
President and General Manager
Toledo Blade
PO Box 921
Toledo, OH 43697
419.724.6217
419.724.6166 FAX
jzerbey@toledoblade.com

Dick Fuller
Director of Circulation
Toledo Blade
PO Box 921
Toledo, OH 43697
419.724.6314
dfuller@toledoblade.com

John Crisp
Director of Sales and New Media
Toledo Blade
PO Box 921
Toledo, OH 43697
419.724.6491
jcrisp@toledoblade.com

YELLOW BAGS from Toledo Free Press
Tom Pounds
Toledo Free Press
605 Monroe Street
Toledo, OH 43604
419.245.0877
tpounds@toledofreepress.com