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Solution for legal documents
Solution for legal documents
Special delivery of legal documents – minimize expense, optimize costs
Swiss Post's special delivery service for legal documents is a service developed specially for debt enforcement offices and the courts. We offer multiple delivery attempts by our courier service if the first attempt is unsuccessful.
Your challenges
The success rate in serving legal documents – whether they be debt enforcement documents or court documents – on individuals is low. This is mainly because recipients are not at home during the postal carrier’s "ordinary" morning delivery round and because only a small proportion of documents are collected at post office counters. Subsequent delivery attempts by court officials entail high administrative costs and tie up valuable staff resources, while failing to produce the desired success rate.
Special delivery of legal documents
After the first unsuccessful regular delivery attempt and the expiry of the seven-day collection period at the post office counter, our courier service delivers your documents to the recipient’s domicile in the evening or on a Saturday morning. Thanks to Swiss Post's flexible infrastructure, we can reach people who are not at home on working days during the morning delivery round.
| Legally permitted delivery times | Special delivery times | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday to Friday | 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. | 5 to 8 p.m. |
| Saturday | 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. | 7 to 11 a.m. |
The price for the special delivery of a legal document is CHF 24 per document (excl. VAT).
The benefits for you
The special delivery service for legal documents is an official Swiss Post service and takes account of the legal requirements and conditions applicable to the delivery of debt collection and court documents.
The timing of the special delivery is defined on an individual basis taking account of factors such as the recipient's social environment and occupation.
We guarantee that our qualified staff will achieve a delivery success rate defined in joint consultation with you.
The advantages for you
- You cut your administrative costs
- You increase the number of documents delivered
- You minimize the time and effort you have to put into processing undelivered documents
- You can free up staff for other tasks
- Shorter proceedings for you and your clients
- Our delivery personnel are subject to postal secrecy requirements which means confidentiality is guaranteed
