What arrives, how it is served, and what happens when they answer.
It arrives by email within a minute of paying, and it is also on screen the moment the payment goes through — that page carries the same links, so you never have to wait for the email to use what you bought.
If it is not in your inbox, check spam. Transactional mail from a shop you have never bought from before lands there more often than anybody would like. Searching your mail for the word "notice" usually finds it faster than scrolling.
Nothing is lost — the notice exists whether or not the email arrived. Email hello@youvebeenserved.shop from the address you paid with and we will send it again.
Include the response code if you have it. It is the six characters printed at the bottom of the notice, and it identifies the order faster than anything else.
The recipient, the complainant and the charges are set when the notice is issued, because the document is generated at that moment and the response code is tied to it.
If you have got a name wrong, write to us. A misspelled name on a document whose entire joke is that it looks official is not a small thing, and we would rather reissue it than have you serve it anyway.
Open the link in the email and print the page. It is laid out for ordinary A4 or Letter paper, with fold marks at the thirds so it goes into a standard envelope.
You do not have to print it. The same link can simply be sent to them, which is what most people do when the person is not in the room.
The notice itself, and a script telling you what to say while you hand it over. Both are documents you print or send.
If you added exhibits or Further Proceedings, those arrive at the same time — a Schedule of Exhibits carrying your photographs, and the Final Notice, Notice of Eviction and Certificate of Compliance held for when you need one.
No. They scan the code at the bottom of the notice, or type the short link, and answer on a page that asks nothing of them beyond how they plead.
There is no sign-up, no app, and nothing to install. Their answer is recorded and sent to you.
They can plead guilty, plead not guilty and appeal, or refuse to acknowledge the notice. Refusing is recorded as refusing, which is usually the funniest outcome.
You get an email telling you which one they chose. That is the part people tend not to expect.
Yes. Sign it with your name or with "Anonymous". Anonymous is what makes it possible to leave one on a desk, in a mailbox, or under a windshield wiper without ever being placed.
Their plea still reaches you either way. They just do not know whose inbox it landed in.
No. Nothing is posted and nothing is emailed to them by us. You serve it yourself, which is deliberate — a notice that arrives from a company is junk mail, and one handed over by a person is an event.
$14.99 for one notice, and every third notice is free. Buy two and the third costs nothing; buy eight and four are free.
A notice written to order — where you describe the habit and we draft the charges for it — is $19.99.
Exhibits, $4.99: up to 3 photographs annexed to the notice on their own sheet, plus a charge you write yourself.
Further Proceedings, $9.99: the Final Notice, the Notice of Eviction and the Certificate of Compliance, issued now and held until the habit continues — or stops.
The documents are delivered instantly and you see the notice in full before you pay, so sales are final once it has been issued.
That is the policy, not a reflex. If something went wrong — the wrong name, a document that never arrived, a charge you did not make — write to us and we will put it right.
No. It is a novelty gift and carries no legal force whatsoever. It is not a legal notice, it is not binding, and You've Been Served is not a court, a firm, or an authority of any kind.
It is designed to look official because that is the entire joke. The fine print on every notice says so, in a font small enough to be funny and large enough to be read.
It could, if you pick badly. These work because they name a harmless habit that everybody in the room has already noticed and nobody has said out loud.
They do not work as a way to raise something serious, and a notice is a poor place to have a real argument. If you are hesitating about whether they will laugh, that hesitation is usually correct.
It is printed on their notice and stored with the order so the document can be retrieved from its link. We do not email them, we do not market to them, and we do not sell anything to anybody.
It is a name on a gag gift, and we treat it as one.
If your question is not up there, write to hello@youvebeenserved.shop from the address you paid with, and include your response code — the six characters at the foot of the notice. With those two things we can usually fix it in one reply.