If I’m wrong I apologize but I’d rather be safe than sorry. I was assigned a job last night. I received the typical notary checklist…print on regular paper, blue ink only, be on time, wear shoes and pants, etc. then the second page had a place for everything looking like a notarization except for my stamp. I said no but did give the information inside the margins on the first page. Anyone could buy a $35 stamp and turn that 2nd page into my acknowledgment. Who here would have done what they wanted?
I don’t really understand the issue. Was your name preprinted on the notarization?
Very hard to explain. I should have taken a picture.
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Im not really understanding either.
Those pages are usually just an example of what a completed notiarization looks like. They should NOT have a real notary’s name on them. Why they need to even include pages like that is beyond me but I guess they think we’re all morons and have to be shown step by step how to do our job.
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I have been getting orders from a company that includes 15 pages of “examples” showing how a notary should ensure a document is done correctly. Just tells me they keep hiring incompetent notaries. I don’t even print them anymore. Maybe it was an example page?
There’s also a lender that requires an identification verification and where it has the notary signature and date it’s followed by “stamp” and I just put in my commission number there and don’t stamp. Which is accepted.
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I just print all of the pages. It’s easier for me to do that than to pick and choose which pages to exclude. Same for scanbacks. I don’t stamp the ID pages either. We’re not supposed to stamp anything that we’re not notarizing.
For myself, I save on paper and ink by deleting pages I don’t need. I delete them before printing the signer copy. On the W-9 I only print that entire form for the package, I give the signer the first page only. There’s sometimes that page that says make sure your printer settings are correct - don’t print that one either. I don’t print a shipping label twice either.
If I do ten contracts in a week that saves over 100 pages easy. I figure save wherever I can these days.
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I love this! I had one the other day…4 copies of tax disclosure…16 pages! Seriously??? Do you ever get feed back from just one copy. (I imagine a trained monkey sitting there pressing, “yes, I want this copy”, “oops, did I press this before? Oh well let me press it again!”). I can do one copy and see what happens!
I also get those pages they want us to stamp , I just put not permitted in the “stamp” area and carry on
Im finding instances of them mispelling a name below a signature line and inserting a new one with the correct name and leaving the mispelled version there. Ive had to call a few last week.
I’ll keep my eyes open for that!