Many clients postpone using profesional process service till the last few available days when service can be effected. Many callers say:
“I need this document served today”
“I need this divorce served yesterday”
“Can you serve my complaint tonight”
“Will you serve this summons within one day?”
The logical answer from us:”Yes. For an additional fee”. But it should be noted that we do not enjoy rush process service because it cannot always be accomplished but we always have to charge for it.
The ideal situation would be that clients who need our NY process service plan for processing serving in order to allow the process server enough time to seek defendants in order to effect service.
There are many problems related to doing rush process serving in a big city like New York. Here most adults spend considerable time in school and at work -places where process service is very hard to do. So the process server has to wait for a window of opportunity for the recipient to be back home, sometimes after 9:00 P.M.
Here in NY many persons know that they can evade service by not opening the door and many of these evaders tend to be people who have to be served on the last minute. Wouldn’t it be more practical to allow time to go after defendants by planning for process service, thus saving money by not having to pay the rush process service fees? We would love to see at least 80% of our clients taking advantage of a $55.00 flat process service fee (For process service in NYC within 2-5 business days).
