Effective December 1, 2021, any entity that receives 100 or more paper bankruptcy notices in a single calendar month from the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC) is a high-volume paper notice recipient. (This number may be adjusted annually.) High-volume paper recipients will receive a notice from the BNC instructing the recipient to register for Electronic Bankruptcy Noticing (EBN) within 45 days. The recipient must be ready to accept EBN noticing for its paper notices to the name/address that met the threshold within 135 days of the date of the notice. There will be a 30-day redundant period where the recipient will receive both paper and electronic notices, after which EBN will be the recipient’s sole means of receiving notices from the BNC.
If the 45-day period has expired and the recipient has not registered for EBN, the BNC will generate a second notice advising that, 60 days from the date of the second notice, if the recipient has not registered for EBN, paper noticing for the name/address that met the “high-volume recipient” threshold will be automatically replaced by an electronic address where the recipient can retrieve its notices. This electronic address will be the recipient’s sole means of receiving notices from the BNC until the recipient registers for EBN and designates a new electronic address.
Additional information is available on the Bankruptcy Noticing Center Information Page.