# Anyone dealt with the North American Receiveable Management Service? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300 "2026-08-11T19:36:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/1 "2026-08-11T19:36:02Z")
Got a notice from them saying I owed $63.68 for UPS brokerage, but when I tried to phone them my phone issued a spam warning. So, avoid, then?. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/2 "2026-08-11T19:37:57Z")
Unless you’re aware of an incoming international package being sent via UPS, you can ignore the notice as a scam attempt. And even if you were expecting something from UPS, surely they and not some third-party company would be the ones asking for the money? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/3 "2026-08-11T19:47:57Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Unless you’re aware of an incoming international package being sent via UPS, you can ignore the notice as a scam attempt. RMS only attempts to collect delinquent payments (so not for anything inroute). If it is legit, ignoring it might affect your credit rating. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/4 "2026-08-11T20:37:22Z")
But even if the collection is legit, what of the spammy phone number? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/5 "2026-08-11T20:47:02Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > But even if the collection is legit, what of the spammy phone number Yeah, legit collections agencies kind of _want_ you to call them back. Eta: but I could be wrong… ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/6 "2026-08-11T23:00:24Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > what of the spammy phone number? Have you googled the phone number? You should get one of two results; a “contact us” page on RMS’s website or dozens of reports on scam alert websites…or nothing at all, which makes it just as suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/7 "2026-08-11T23:03:02Z")
They are a debt collection agency. If you ordered anything through UPS from overseas they may be trying to collect on a tariff or some other fee. If you wish to talk to them call the number on their website and not the number on the bill, which might be spoofed. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/8 "2026-08-12T01:05:45Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Have you googled the phone number? Thanks - never googled a number before. The results for this one? Some say legit, others say fraudulent. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > If you wish to talk to them call the number on their website After googling “North American Receivable Management Services”, the closest I could come to hunting down their “website” was through another actual website called CollectionAgencies.ca, which seemed slightly hinky to me, much like its AI overview. It listed two phone numbers - the one on my notice, and some other number. That other number was listed as “Main”, while the number I tried to call was listed as “User Reported”. Chuck it - tomorrow I’m just gonna trundle down to the UPS depot and hopefully they have my name in their sysytem and get this nuttiness resolved. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/9 "2026-08-12T04:12:09Z")
If they sold the debt to this company, they probably can’t help you because, well…“We got ours already, so you are on your own.” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/10 "2026-08-15T03:07:53Z")
Wouldn’t UPS make a number of attempts to collect the debt before selling it at a discount? This sounds like a bolt out of the blue demand for payment. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealt-with-the-north-american-receiveable-management-service/1032300/11 "2026-08-15T03:56:26Z")
If they just sold off a bunch of debts out of convenience, I don’t know if there is any legal requirements concerning any of those individual debts and, again, if the debt _was_ sold to this company there is probably nothing UPS can do at this point because (once again) it is not in any possible way their debt to deal with any more.