A UPS class action lawsuit alleging that the store’s $10 charge for notary services far exceeds the price allowed under state law, has been removed to federal court.
Lead plaintiff Kevin Richardson II claims in his class action lawsuit that he has utilized The UPS Store, run by J&V Logistics in his area, for notary services on several occasions – each time paying $10 for the service.
However, he says that Massachusetts law only permits a $1.25 charge for notary services.
Richardson initiated the UPS class action lawsuit in Massachusetts state court, but it was removed to federal court on Nov. 7.
UPS Stores provide packing and freight services, as well as postal and business communications. Each store also offers notary services. Notary services are often required to provide authentication of documents.
According to the UPS class action lawsuit, UPS “advertises notary services on their website, holding out notaries as their own service providers and states ‘our licensed professional notary public services are here to make life easier.’”
The UPS notary class action lawsuit notes that UPS provides two weeks of training in San Diego, along with in-store training, to store managers and franchisees in order to offer the service.
All UPS Stores in Massachusetts charge $10 for their notary services, alleges the UPS class action lawsuit.
According to the plaintiff, UPS systematically overcharges for notary services.
The UPS notary class action lawsuit alleges that the training manual provided by UPS to franchise owners indicates that the company “regularly requires or allows it franchisees to charge above the statutory limit for notary services.”
“The Plaintiffs have regularly been charges and paid eight times the statutory limit for notary services at [The UPS Store] franchisees because of [The UPS Store’s] price gouging and it control and the requirements it places on [The UPS Store] franchisees,” alleges the UPS class action lawsuit.
The UPS Store class action lawsuit seeks to represent a Class of consumers who have purchased notary services from a UPS Store in Massachusetts.
The plaintiff is seeking $25 in damages for himself and other Class Members for each alleged incident of overcharge by the UPS Store, along with a refund of the fees.
Richardson is also seeking a court order stopping the UPS Store from allegedly overcharging for notary services in Massachusetts.
In addition to removal, the UPS Store has submitted a motion to dismiss the class action lawsuit.
“This lawsuit is a misguided effort to create heretofore unrecognized causes of action by misreading and/or ignoring the plain language of a more than one-hundred-year-old statute,” contends UPS in its motion to dismiss the class action lawsuit.
UPS argues that the state law the class action lawsuit alleges the company violates by overcharging for notary services does not cover the services at issue.
The plaintiff and proposed Class are represented by Orestes Brown, Bailey Buchanan, Keith Sachs, and D. Scoot Dullea of Metaxas Brown Pidgeon LLP.
The UPS Notary Fee Class Action Lawsuit is Kevin Richardson II v. The UPS Store Inc., et al., Case No. 1:18-cv-12338-MPK, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
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35 thoughts onUPS Class Action Lawsuit Says Notary Service Too Expensive
It apparently is the practice of UPS Store in every state to ignore state law and overcharge for notary services. In Va they are making up additional charges for notarizing true copies, in clear violation of the law.
I was in the POSTAL PLUS COPY CENTER CYPRESS, TX and witnessed them charging $25 a document (1 page document) I might add to notarize. I even questioned the guy and he told me they were allowed to charge that much. I stated that I was a Notary and they were overcharging to notarize. He just shrugged his shoulders and went on his merry way!
Illinois was paying $1 now $5 a page please add me
UPS Atlanta told me it was $4 to notarize. I had some forms done at my bank recently they did it as a courtesy since I was a customer the man told me at the most at State of Georgia could charge two dollars anyway so it’s not such a big deal,
after they told me it was four dollars I went to my car to research it and found out it’s two dollars maximum.
I returned to the store Informing them to Georgia law States the most you can charge is $2 and they do it for two dollars but if you don’t know the law will charge you double
Did they issue a refund? I just paid $10 in Midtown Atlanta (01/07/23), clerk stated that the cost went up and the forms were $4 to notarize (for two forms) and 6.00 clerical fee.
UPS in MA obviously is aware of the $1.25 statutory limit because they itemize the charge on the receipt as $1.25 “notary”and $8.75 “document review”.
Besides being evidence of a guilty mindset, if they are not actually “reviewing” the document, it is consumer fraud charging for a service not being rendered. If they are indeed conducting a “review”, it could be practicing law without a license.
As the UPS claim of “not covering the cost” — I’d like to hear them explain under what legal doctrine or statute provides for a “we need the money” exemption to statutory limits.
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yes just used them for a simple transaction was $65 have copies was out rages it actually was more then the mobile notary
I am pretty sure they charged me $10 in Tennessee for notary services. Put me on the list