subject: Security For Shipping Legal Documents [print this page] When a law firm ships legal documents, they can have a great deal riding on the successful delivery of those papers. That is why most legal firms make sure that they only allow a New Jersey delivery service who is trustworthy and who has adequate security measures in place to make deliveries of their legal documents. Failure to do so is simply too large of a risk in the eyes of most legal companies.
Couriers do in fact have measures that they put into place to increase security when they're shipping legal documents. These security measures are designed to make sure that the delivery never gets lost, and to also make sure that any information which might be contained in any legal document never gets exposed to anyone who is not supposed to have knowledge of that information. In terms of legal documents, the information which they contain is often as valuable as the document itself. That is why creating accountability for the information as well as for the document itself is a very important part of the security involved in shipping legal paperwork.
The way that courier companies can provide this type of security is by using a single courier to be responsible for every phase of the delivery of a legal document. Essentially, the more people that handle a piece of paperwork, the more chances there are for it to be lost or compromised. Not only that, but every time a document changes hands, the more difficult it is to track where the problem occurred.
This use of a single courier to make every part of the delivery is known as an in hand courier service. When you place the order for a legal document to be picked up, a courier will come and receive the document from your office. The same courier will then hold on to the document until it is placed in the hands of the person you are having it delivered too.
This type of service is available no matter how far you need to ship your documents. If you need a legal document shipped to the other side of the world, an in-hand courier will fly commercial with the document taken as their carryon luggage. By never letting it out of their site they create a nearly foolproof assurance that the document will arrive safely. Documents can even be signed, witnessed, and returned to sender using this method of shipping.
