Washington DC Process Server

Introduction: We have been serving process since 1970. Our experience is your solution. Most process serving companies take up to 3 days before making their first service attempt. Our name, Same Day Process Service, means that we attempt service on the same day we receive papers if received by noon. All of our servers use Android phones and a custom software application to record service of all legal documents. At the time of completed service, our servers open the job assigned to them from their phone, record the service information, take a photo of the location, and the GPS latitude and longitude are recorded. Those records are immediately transmitted to the office where the client is notified by email or phone and the affidavit is prepared for the server’s signature and immediate return to the client. Our servers are also private investigators. We utilize a varied skill set when serving documents. When the person we are trying to serve is not home, we put a small marker in the door to determine whether or not anyone is exiting or entering; we record information on vehicles in the driveway or parked in front of the house; we often carry a box to the neighbors and pretend that we have a delivery for the subject, which usually provides us with good information as to the best time to catch the subject and whether or not they still live there. We could write a book on our numerous methods for attempting service and you can find many of those stories on our website and on YouTube (just enter “Same Day Process Service” on YouTube). What I like most about my job is serving people who avoid service. Some people get excited about tracking down and shooting a dumb animal for sport (or food). I get excited about outsmarting an intelligent person who is trying to outsmart me. An attorney called one day and stated that his process server was unable to serve a very elusive defendant and asked if I would make an attempt. He explained that the defendant would avoid service by speeding up the street to his house, open his garage door from a half block away and close the door as the car entered the garage. If there was a car or a person near his house that he did not recognize, he would speed by his house and not return for hours. He lived on the side of a hill and there was a place on the opposite hill several hundred yards away where I could park and see his house clearly. I remembered that I had about 70 pounds of old phone books stored in a back room in my office. I loaded them in a large box and took them to the defendant’s house while he was at work and placed them in front of his garage door just far enough away to allow the garage door to open. His driveway had a five foot tall brick wall on each side so the box would be hidden from his view until he turned into his driveway. I then parked on the opposite hill and waited. An hour later, his black Honda sped around the corner and headed up the hill to his house. My car was in high gear as I closed in just in time to see his car jerk to a stop in his driveway as he jumped out and struggled to move the heavy box of phone books. Before he could get back in his car, he was served.