Up to 7 attempts in 72 hours
Emergency Process Service
Up to 7 attempts within 72 hours for complicated or evasive subjects, in-state or out-of-state.
Chapter 01
Why some subjects become hard to serve
Some defendants become hard to find on purpose. They move without an update, or they know a hearing is coming and start avoiding it. Others are simply hard by circumstance: a hired sheriff makes a few attempts and moves on to the next file, certified mail comes back unsigned, and the deadline keeps getting closer.
Two SwiftWings Express clients hit exactly that wall. Joyce Courtney has used SwiftWings for about 11 years on cases where skip tracing led nowhere and sheriff's attempts and certified mail had both already failed. Jen Woodward's case had gone the same way: a hired sheriff went out multiple times, then reported the defendants had moved, which turned out not to be true.
A sealed legal envelope and papers on a car dashboard, a two-lane road through wooded hills at golden hour
How the 72-hour window is worked
Emergency Process Service runs up to 7 attempts within 72 hours, at varied days and times of day, so a subject who is avoiding one pattern of attempts still gets found on another. It covers complicated or evasive subjects both in-state and out-of-state; about 10% of SwiftWings Express jobs move through corresponding agents when the address is outside North Carolina.
Every attempt is logged so you can see when and how it was tried, the same real-time tracking every SwiftWings Express tier includes. Call (828) 380-7650 to talk through a subject who has already dodged one process server, whether the case sits in Weaverville or anywhere across North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida or Tennessee.
Chapter 03
When it's the right call, and what comes back
Emergency is the tier for a hearing date that will not move and a subject who has already proven hard to reach through slower means. It is not a first choice for a straightforward serve; Standard or 2-Day Rush cover that ground at their own pace.
What you get back is the same as every SwiftWings Express serve: a diligent record of each attempt, a free notarized affidavit once service is complete, and the 100% money-back performance guarantee if the tier's promise isn't kept.
Jen Woodward: hired Ramon on a Monday afternoon for a Thursday hearing, both defendants served that same evening. Call (828) 380-7650.
From the service log
When the sheriff couldn't, and the clock was already running
Monday PM
Hired Ramon
Same evening
Both defendants served
The hired sheriff had gone out multiple times and been told the defendants had moved. Both were served the evening SwiftWings took the job.
Jen Woodward · Thursday court hearing
“I have used Swiftwings services for about 11 years... When all skip tracing points to a certain address, sheriff's attempts failed, certified mail failed I turned to them for their service. So many times they achieved obtaining service when all others did not.”
Joyce Courtney
Read the full set of client accounts, including the ones stamped with real timestamps, on our reviews page. Every guarantee behind this tier is written out in plain terms on guarantees.