Friday, August 23, 2013

Benefits of Association


Do you belong to an Association of Professional Process Servers? If not, why not? There are several possibilities: NAPPS (National Association of Professional Process Servers) provides a directory of 11 chartered state associations and 10 non chartered state associations on their NAPPS website. You may also wish to join (IPSA) International Process Servers Association and/or the United States Process Servers Association (USPSA). Research the association(s) of interest to see which one will best serve your needs and to ascertain your eligibility requirements.

We belong to the National Association of Professional Process Servers, a national association.  It is an excellent conduit for obtaining assignments from other process servers and law firms, especially from those outside your city or state.  There are many excellent benefits of membership. The NAPPS is very affordable to join, provided you are eligible, and the return on your investment is sometimes ten to twenty times what you put into it. 

The state associations operate similar to NAPPS in terms of representing the interests of their members; some of them work hard to lobby their interests with the state legislature or county governments, and educate members on how to serve process or pass along important information about changes or events within the industry.  Just like NAPPS, the local association can be a good way to network with other servers in other parts of your state so that if they have a court document that needs to be served in your city, they may call you to serve it for them rather than drive across the state to serve it themselves, as you may do for them likewise. 

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