Process Server: Delivers writs, summons to appear in court, bankruptcy documents/eviction notices, notices of demand, all sorts of nasty legal documents where the service must be made directly to the defendent/respondent, face to face, once they have been positively identified. By me. Much of what I did was for the District Court, but also the ATO, Telstra, and big hitters like that where financial fraud had gone to court, and a massive judgement had been handed down against someone, and they were then trying to hide out and pretend it was all just a bad dream and would go away. It never does.
There was an investigative element involved also, and you would often collect evidence of various kinds on site, look for signs of occupancy, dumped financial records, and signs of deliberately trying to delay or prevent being served that would again often be used in later judgement against them.
One case involved a real estate agent who had cleverly sub let a Dalkieth residence when the owners were overseas and pocketed the money (was an acc-I-dent), that had her shockingly arrested in the court (I was a witness), and another was when a prominent local provider of discreet personal services torched her house (allegedly) and said that all her financial records had all burned up, except I had already visited both her dwelling and the business establishment early that morning (the Roman and Jungle Rooms were very nice) and found them discarded, along with detailed employee records, cross referenced to many months of customer payment slips. Awkward. That gained her many charges, prison time, and a gold star on the ATO wall of fame. Some of the girls got caught up in that too. Tip: pay your taxes. Always.
Mostly it was Telstra or someone chasing young women in low level jobs with huge rent or mobile phone bills who had gone on the game to try to pay them off, and business owners who had neglected to pay tax for a few years, and were about to lose everything they owned, plus a lot more because the ATO had decided to make an example of them, and were going 10x restitution on the original evasion just for giggles. Plus interest. And Tip. Fees. Charges... Get the idea? I received quite a few death threats on those ones. I don't know why, I was just the courier.
The interesting ones were when wifey was 'working' to pay off a huge credit card debt or was trying to keep up with the Jones', but hubby had her on a short financial leash and the ATO was shockingly involved. They would sometimes try to 'negotiate' with me to avoid service. No chance.
One real nasty was a dude (house in Yangebup) who was using his fiancée as a punching bag (a rugby player who worked security at a couple of beachside hotels north of Fremantle for many years. In 1995, '96 as well...), and she was trying to save up enough cash to bail while she could still walk unassisted, but things were getting messy. I actually randomly bumped into her up north under totally different employment circumstances a few years later, and she was doing much better. Still clearly very scared, but happier, and getting a life going. She spilled her guts and told me the whole story for some reason. Horrible. He looked like MM, oddly.
Many of them I am not prepared to talk about out of fear of retribution.
The funny thing was, the money was terrible, and I was ripped off by my last employer. Dogs and fleas. Go figure...
