“You’ve been served.” Perhaps you’ve heard that line in a movie. There’s a knock on the door and suddenly, a delivery man is holding up a pizza alongside a petition for divorce. In the 2008 film Pineapple Express, a process server named Dale Denton goes as far as to deliver a subpoena to a dead body. It’s a parody of the system, but it emphasizes a collective presumption we hold about process servers as cold, dogged, and willing to stop at nothing to deliver bad news. The re