Really Post Office? WTAF?

More Post Office disservice.

Part of any lawsuit is ensuring good service on the Defendants.  Kinda important - very important actually as they deserve notice and should be properly served. 

I send a process server out on a serve on a guy who has defaulted on his business contract with the seller of the business - Guy is keeping the business but not paying for it.  This can get people upset, and justifiably so.

So the fellow will not answer the door, and the process server tries 4 different times and at the business location where he's told he's not in, all 4 times there as well.

So I want to do a motion for alternate service by posting it on his door and at the business and mailing it to both locations.

But to do that, I need a Postal Verification form done by his local post office.

I send one out on April 28, nice and early with lots of time to spare on the summons.

No response back from the Post Office.  Weird as typically mail to the postmaster does get processed and returned pretty quickly.

I send another one out on June 7.  Same no response.

Court refuses to issue an alternate service order without it, I tried.  Court refuses to issue alternate service stating they must have the postal form back even as I relate how I've tried twice and gotten no luck and then the Court show causes me (to appear the first week of July) to explain why I haven't served them yet.  Yippee.  Little Catch-22 there that I'm highly enjoying.

So I go in person to the Post Office yesterday bringing my third address verification form for the same person.

After much back and forth, they check and say they don't have the prior ones and they must have been sent out.  Remember this for later.

I note I never received them, and they agree to take my third attempt and tell me to come back today at 3 for it to be done as they first offered to mail it back when done but I noted they hadn't been successful the last two times. All righty then.

I come back and they have lost the form I gave them yesterday.  No kidding.

I indicate I'm not thrilled by this outcome and the postal worker goes to the back and then comes out, mirabile dictu, with the June 7 form stamped completed June 10, and even better, stapled to the form is my postage-paid return envelope I had submitted with it.  

Instead of mailing it back, they stapled it together and just had it sit there.

So much for it not being in the back yesterday.  Unbelievable.