It's not always bad news

A Solicitor client had a case whereby they needed to contact a subject in order to have a letter personally delivered to him. They had an address that they believed to be correct in Canada, but were not receiving any return contact from him when they wrote.
We were asked to trace the subject and, when found, send an agent to hand deliver the Solicitor's correspondence.

Our overseas agents completed the trace enquiries for us and were indeed able to confirm that, according to all records, the subject was living as stated, ie at the address we had been provided. With this information confirmed we then instructed our agents to personally attend at the address and serve the subject with the documents. This was not easy. As we know, Canada is a vast country and the subject happened to live in a remote part of the country in a small fishing village on the North Western shores. We can all picture the typical frozen, remote outback type village that we see on our TV screens.  

Our agent reached the village after an arduous journey and was greeted by the rather sceptical inhabitants of the place who perhaps may not view strangers as visiting for any good reason. We attended at the property and eventually met with our subject where the documents were served on him once he had confirmed his identification. He had been avoiding contact with the solicitors on the basis that they had not advised him of the reason for their interest and feared the worst. In fact, he was to be the recipient of a substantial sum of money.