Stamps and Stickers
So it's been a while since I've written on the blog, mostly because my time is filled with packing and visiting notaries. I am deeply involved at the moment in the glorious process that is legal documentation and paperwork. Last week I visited three notaries as well as the "pythontecary" office at city hall. I am pretty sure I spelled that word incorrectly. I am not entirely sure what "pythontecary" actually means. No...let me be clear...I haven't the slightest idea what it means. I do, however, know that it is the place that you must visit in order to authenticate a notary stamp. Really. You might have thought that the notary stamp in and of itself was official enough; it is not. You must visit this particular office in city hall where they will look up the name of the notary that stamped the document and then put another mark (this time, a large orange sticker) on your document saying that this notary stamp is real and not a fake stamp placed there by someone masquerading as a notary.
Are there really people out there pretending to be notaries? That's an odd racket, I would think. It only costs 5 dollars to notarize something...hardly seems like the kind of lucrative business someone would bother faking their way into.
But anyway...there is this office that exists for the purposes of preventing notary fraud. So I got my big orange stickers and THEN sent my documents off to the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania. They, I imagine, are going to affix yet another sticker, or perhaps stamp, on my papers.
Finally, I must bring these documents with all their various stickers, stamps, signatures, and whatnot to the Costa Rican consulate, where they will receive another marking of some sort. By the time I'm done with the papers, they'll be so covered in stamps they'll be illegible. But hopefully they will be covered in all the RIGHT stamps and stickers, otherwise I'll have to start the process all over again.
On a final note, I must say that the folks in the Philadelphia city hall were so helpful and nice, even when they were sending me all over the building. No one laughed at me when I couldn't recall the name of the office I was looking for! I stood there for a moment saying, "Pedontic...something? Pythonti...something? Something with a "p"?
If you do find yourself in a need of a P-whateveritscalled, the office is on the second floor, room 269 in city hall...
Are there really people out there pretending to be notaries? That's an odd racket, I would think. It only costs 5 dollars to notarize something...hardly seems like the kind of lucrative business someone would bother faking their way into.
But anyway...there is this office that exists for the purposes of preventing notary fraud. So I got my big orange stickers and THEN sent my documents off to the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania. They, I imagine, are going to affix yet another sticker, or perhaps stamp, on my papers.
Finally, I must bring these documents with all their various stickers, stamps, signatures, and whatnot to the Costa Rican consulate, where they will receive another marking of some sort. By the time I'm done with the papers, they'll be so covered in stamps they'll be illegible. But hopefully they will be covered in all the RIGHT stamps and stickers, otherwise I'll have to start the process all over again.
On a final note, I must say that the folks in the Philadelphia city hall were so helpful and nice, even when they were sending me all over the building. No one laughed at me when I couldn't recall the name of the office I was looking for! I stood there for a moment saying, "Pedontic...something? Pythonti...something? Something with a "p"?
If you do find yourself in a need of a P-whateveritscalled, the office is on the second floor, room 269 in city hall...
posted by Rebekah at 9:03 AM
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