The letter we received on April 17, 2012 had the following as a Bulk Mail Permit:
Presorted Standard
US Postage
PAID
DTPG

Return Address is a UPS Store, same as everyone experiences:
Compliance Services
5962 Zebulon Rd.
Postal Mail Box 363
Macon, GA 31210-2031

I would be interested in having others post the last line of the Bulk Mail Permit on the letters they receive. Do they all have “DTPG” or are other permits used?

I called local USPS Bulk Mail facility and learned the following:
+ Businesses can obtain their own permits. For example, LL Bean could get a Bulk Mail permit
that was “LLB”. (Example provided by USPS)
+ Those that use bulk mail permits have to take their mail to the facility where they obtained the
permit where their mail is counted, weighed, etc to determine proper billing in lieu of postage.
+ There can be cases where, with assistance from insiders, you could circumvent the system
and avoid payment of fees for the bulk mail.
+ Local USPS Bulk Mail facility could not help identify the location of mailing of the DTPG permit
Recommended that I call USPS Postal Inspector. Before I call, I would appreciate feedback
From others who have received this mailing, particularly from those where the Bulk Mail permit
Is different from DTPG and / or the return address is different than Macon, GA.

I searched for acronyms for DTPG and found nothing that seemed applicable.

What a difference the Position of Secretary of State and Attorney General make:

+++ NC and TX have taken legal action per my previous postings. You don’t see any recent posts from these states.

+++ Montana Secretary of State warns:
“ … if this scam penetrates our borders, I will immediately contact the Attorney General’s office to investigate”.
http://sos.mt.gov/news/assets/pdfs/2009/Potential_Scam_Alert.pdf
You don’t see any posts from Montana businesses.

+++ Georgia has had a warning posted on their web site since February 2008 without taking any action. That is as good as saying it is okay.
http://www.sos.ga.gov/pressrel/20080220.htm

+++ Florida SOS web site posts a annual warning during the corporate registration season. Florida Attorney General’s office reached an agreement with Compliance Services in 2009 and states that Compliance Services is following the rules of this settlement via the disclaimers.
http://m.naplesnews.com/news/2011/apr/27/Compliance-Services-Better-Business-Bureau-minutes/

+++ California passes legislation effective Jan 1, 2012 requiring the same disclaimer used by Corporate Services as far back as 2009:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/pdf/new-laws-preventing-fraudulent-solicitations.pdf
This is like passing a law that says “Compliance Services, what you are doing is legal”. You don’t see many posts on this site from CA from there is a separate site for CA:

The Los Angeles, CA BBB has 81 closed cases and identifies the contact person as “Selwyn J Monarch – Principal”. This site has the most information of any BBB site that I have found:
http://www.la.bbb.org/business-reviews/Incorporating-Companies/Compliance-Services-in-Studio-City-CA-100049181

From the above, you can see that Compliance Services knows where the “safe havens” are.

Selwyn J Monarch has been a member of “Don Porter’s Thursday Golf Group (DPTGG)” since 1998 and his photo and player profile are at:
http://dptgg.org/cgi-bin/DPTGG/profile.cgi?SMonarch

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Per Intelius on May 1, 2012, Selwyn J Monarch is now Age 80. http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Selwyn&qmi=J&qn=Monarch&qcs=CA&focusfirst=1

This correlates with Selwyn J Monarch being admitted to the CA State Bar in 1961, 51 years ago with “Disciplinary and Related Actions” in 1994, 1995 and 2004. At age 80, there is some hope that Selwyn J Monarch will get his reward in HELL soon.

+++++
I am glad my wife, son and daughter don’t have to face themselves, family and friends knowing that their spouse and father has a long history of operating on the very fringe between scam and legal.

California Bar Journal, Official Publication of the State Bar of CA, includes the details of the 2004 action listed by “The State Bar of California” web site for Selwyn J Monarch Attorney #31025 as referenced in my April 22, 2012 Post #383 above.

On the web page below, click on “SELWYN J MONARCH” who is the 6th from bottom on the list of attorneys listed under “SUSPENSIONS/PROBATION”:
http://archive.calbar.ca.gov/%5CArchive.aspx?articleId=59208&categoryId=59126&month=11&year=2004

From the above, SELWYN J. MONARCH [#31025], 73, of Sherman Oaks was suspended for 30 days, stayed, placed on one year of probation and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year. The order took effect July 10, 2004. (MPRE = Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination)

According to California Bar Journal, Selwyn J Monarch and another non-attorney owned and operated a business called MP Realty Services. MP sent out form letters seeking clients to represent for the purpose of determining whether home loan borrowers were due a refund for overcharges.

MP Realty Services ultimately filed three breach of contract lawsuits, two against Fidelity Federal Bank and one against Downey Savings and Loan Association, after the banks declined to settle claims for refunds.

Judgment was granted against the borrowers represented by MP Realty Services in all three cases, and without the borrower’s knowledge or authorization, MP Realty Services filed appeals. The appeals failed and final judgments totaling $178,000 were entered against the borrowers.

Compliance Services
5962 Zebulon Rd.
Postal Mail Box 363
Macon, GA 31210-2031

This is UPS Store #1914:
http://www.theupsstorelocal.com/1914/

Consent Agreement and Permanent Injuction signed by State of NC and Compliance Services on March 10, 2011:
http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/pdf/ConsentJudgmentSigned031011.pdf

Item 4 on page 3 references over 600 pieces of mail to “Compliance Services” being held at the UPS Store in Raleigh as of Oct 2009.
600 x $125 = $75,000
Assuming that 50% of the envelopes contained “Monopoly Money”, spit, etc, would still mean $37,500 in the envelopes. Terms of the consent order was payment of $25,000 and agreement not to make future mailings unless in compliance with the requirements of the consent agreement. As I understand the consent agreement, the 600 pieces of mail were released to Attorney General of NC for return to senders.

Pages 5-7 of the Consent Agreement contains a long list of conditions which future solicitations by Compliance Services to NC businesses must comply with. Condition d) at top of page 7 specifies that future solicitations could not be sent between Feb 15 and April 30 annually to avoid confusion to NC Corporations filing of Annual Reports or payment of annual filing fee.

From Postings #274, 277, 278, 279, 281, 282, 283, 284 and 286 all use the following address:
Compliance Services
2820 Selwyn Ave,
Postal Mail Box 847,
Charlotte, NC 28209

The above address corresponds with UPS Store #2153 at 2820 Selwyn Ave:
http://www.theupsstorelocal.com/2153/

The first of the above postings was on May 26, 2011 and the last was on June 8, 2011.

The above indicates that these mailings met at least two of the many requirements of the consent order:
1) No mailings from Raleigh, NC (Changed to UPS Store in Charlotte)
2) Waited until after April 30 to mail the solicitations

NC businesses may want to compare letters received with the complete list of conditions on future solicitations and report to NC Attorney General if they do not believe that the solicitation received complies with all of the conditions on pages 5-7 of the Consent Agreement.

NC took action against Compliance Services in 2009 and identifies the Owner as Selwyn J Monarch. The settlement requires payment of $25,000:
http://www.ncnn.com/business/6646-state-stops-deceptive-mailings-to-businesses

Additional documents related to NC Temporary Restraining order, etc:
http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/pdf/TROExtendedOrder.pdf
http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/pdf/TROCorporate.pdf

The last link is a 71-page document. Selwyn J Monarch is identified as the Agent and Principal Officer of Corporate Services, Inc. d/b/a Compliance Services, Corporate Services and CORPSRVC.COM. The above link includes Exhibits of mailings and notices from several states, UPS Mailbox application, CA Drivers License, etc.

Exhibit #6 in the above link includes a copy of similar Texas Action (Cause # 2009-40126)

I reviewed all the 2012 postings on this site:
Twenty Six Florida Postings starting with #327 starting in January.
Six Georgia Postings starting with # 378 in April.
One Posting from CA without any postings from states other than FL, GA and CA.

My letter to GA Attorney General goes in the mail tomorrow. Somebody needs to notify the Attorney General in FL. GO CLASS ACTION #373 … it is funny to hear that an attorney got scammed … lends credibility to how confusing these notices are in spite of the disclaimers.

Reviewing the postings at several web sites with postings by businesses receiving these solicitations, I find complaints about these or similar letters being sent to both S and C Corporations in fourteen states including AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IN, IL, MA, MT, NC, NY, OH, OR and TX.

Compliance Services web site claims the following:
The documents we prepare for your corporation will keep you in compliance with your state’s requirements and allow you to avoid the necessity of holding actual meetings of the necessary parties.
http://www.corpsrvc.com/
Form does not include any information about the meeting, just the Officers, Directors and Shareholders. Specifically no information about the date, place, or what was discussed in the annual meeting. How can you complete meeting minutes? Does the Secretary of State agree that fictitious meeting minutes replace the need for actually having an annual meeting?

State Bar of CA Profile for Selwyn J Monarch:
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/31025
Above lists Selwyn J Monarch as “Inactive but eligible to become active” and includes address, phone, fax and email address.

Document from link in above profile for a CA State Bar Court Case # 00-O-12562 dated July 18, 2004 signed by the judge on Jan 29, 2004.
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/courtDocs/00-O-12562.pdf
Last sentence of Legal Conclusion on Pages 12-13 of the above PDF:
Respondent failed to keep Clients reasonably informed of significant
developments in the Clients’ cases, in willful violation of section 6068(m) of the California
Business and Professions Code.

The above was assembled via Google searches on April 21, 2012 for the following:
“Compliance Services” SCAM
“Annual Minutes Requirement”
“Selwyn J Monarch”

Compliance Services
5962 Zebulon Rd.
Postal Mail Box 363
Macon, Ga 31210-2031

I just received the letter again that states to reply by April 4, 2012, for some reason I researched this and came to this site. This really is horrible! Thanks for letting me know, at least I can save $125.00 this year.

The reply address is:

Compliance Services
PO Box 1265
Studio City, CA 91614-0265

Please note on the very bottom of the back of the page reads:

“Please note: The preparation of minutes of annual meetings docs does NOT satisfy the requirement to file the annual Statement of Information with the Secretary of State required by section 1502 of the California Corporations Code.”

PLEASE BE AWARE OF THIS SCAM!

DON’T SEND THEM ANY MONEY