Draft Letter To VirtualPostMail Regarding Form 1583 Referral Partnership And Notary Geek Routing

# Draft Letter To VirtualPostMail Regarding Form 1583 Referral Partnership And Notary Geek Routing

Status: working draft  
Date drafted: 2026-05-17  
Prepared for: Greg Lirette / Notary Geek / GoodWare LLC  
Purpose: relationship-preserving VPM partnership / routing / Form 1583 workflow letter; not yet public copy

## Draft Letter

Greg Lirette  
GoodWare LLC / Notary Geek  
Clearwater, Florida  
G@notary.cx

May 17, 2026

VirtualPostMail  
Partnerships / Compliance / Customer Experience

Re: Form 1583 referral partnership, customer routing, and adding Notary Geek as a preferred online-notary option

Hello VirtualPostMail team,

I am writing as a long-time VirtualPostMail customer and as the owner of Notary Geek. I have used VPM for years, currently maintain multiple mailboxes, and have been working to build a real referral relationship with VPM. There is already income coming from the relationship, and I believe there is a larger opportunity here for both of us.

The issue is simple: VPM's Form 1583 customer guidance sends customers toward other notary options, including FedEx, UPS, banks, courthouses, and online notary services such as NotaryCam, while Notary Geek is not listed as an option. I understand why those examples appear in a help article. But given the work I do, the relationship I already have with VPM, and the complexity of Form 1583 identity workflows, Notary Geek should be included as a preferred or recommended online-notary path for eligible VPM customers.

## Why Notary Geek Fits The VPM Workflow

Notary Geek is not just a generic notary listing. We work directly with customers who need online notarization, Form 1583 support, no-SSN / foreign-signer identity-document workflows where legally available, apostille-aware routing, company-document support, and practical document intake before a session goes sideways.

That matters for VPM because Form 1583 is not only "get a notary stamp." It is a mailbox authorization and USPS compliance workflow. The customer needs to understand the form, the IDs, the address fields, the business fields, the signer role, and the difference between the notary acknowledgment and VPM's own CMRA duties.

Notary Geek can help reduce failed submissions, confused customers, bad ID scans, wrong document routing, and support friction.

## The Current Referral Pattern Creates Avoidable Problems

VPM's help text currently points customers to broad notary sources and says a webcam user can use an online notary service such as NotaryCam. It also mentions FedEx offices as a general notary source.

Those examples are understandable, but they create several problems:

1. Customers may assume any online notary service is equally suited for Form 1583.
2. Customers may not understand whether the online-notary path requires a U.S. SSN or KBA.
3. Customers may not understand whether the notary state, identity method, and document workflow fit their facts.
4. Customers may end up in a branded third-party flow, such as FedEx / Proof / Notarize, without understanding who owns the notary act, support, records, or identity evidence.
5. Foreign customers may be sent toward services that are marketed as international-friendly without a clear explanation of the actual notary state and identity method.

Notary Geek can give VPM a cleaner path for eligible customers because the workflow is built around the actual document, signer facts, identity-document readiness, and recipient use case.

## Important USPS / CMRA Distinction

I also want to flag a compliance distinction that matters for customer education.

USPS Form 1583 can involve a notary acknowledgment, but the notary does not absorb the CMRA's USPS duties. The CMRA still has responsibilities around ID review, address verification, Form 1583 retention, USPS database uploads, termination updates, and ongoing customer records.

That means the best customer-facing partner is not simply the cheapest notary or the most famous online platform. The best partner is one that understands the boundary:

- the notary handles the notarial act;
- VPM handles the CMRA acceptance and USPS record obligations;
- the customer needs a clear workflow that does not blur those roles.

This is exactly the kind of workflow Notary Geek is built to support.

## Why The Virginia RON / Electronic-Notarization Research Matters Here

This letter is not only about referral credit or placement in a help article. It is also about avoiding the same category error that Notary Geek has been documenting across the online-notary market.

In Virginia, the state-level legal framework uses electronic-notary and electronic-notarization concepts, while the industry often casually says Remote Online Notarization or RON. Notary Geek's research has focused on the gap between those broad labels and the exact legal identity method used for a specific transaction. A platform may say it supports online notarization, identity verification, KBA, biometrics, credential analysis, or foreign signers, but that does not answer the transaction-level question: what law controlled the notarial act, what identity method was used, and what record proves it?

That issue matters to VPM because Form 1583 customers are often foreign signers, no-SSN signers, company owners, remote workers, digital nomads, or people trying to create address, mailbox, banking, company, or apostille-adjacent records. Sending them to a generic online-notary example can accidentally imply that the notary provider has solved the whole compliance stack.

Notary Geek's position is narrower and safer:

- the mailbox provider / CMRA still owns its USPS acceptance, upload, retention, and customer-record duties;
- the notary performs the notarial act under the notary's state law;
- the online-notary service or RON service provider supplies tools, identity events, records, and workflow;
- the customer still needs the correct Form 1583 facts, accepted IDs, signer role, mailbox address, and recipient/provider instructions;
- a completed online session is not proof by itself that the right legal identity method was used.

This is why Notary Geek keeps referencing Virginia electronic-notarization research even in letters that are not addressed to Virginia. Virginia is the clearest example of the larger market problem: industry shorthand, platform lists, and brand names are being treated as if they answer statutory identity questions. VPM can avoid that problem by sending Form 1583 customers to a partner that separates the notary act, the identity-document workflow, the CMRA decision, and the final recipient/use case.

## Proposed Partnership Path

I would like VPM to consider one or more of the following:

1. Add Notary Geek as a recommended online-notary option for Form 1583 customers.
2. Use a dedicated VPM referral link or landing page so referrals can be tracked cleanly.
3. Create a short VPM-specific Notary Geek intake page for Form 1583 customers.
4. Let Notary Geek provide a customer-ready checklist for Form 1583 notarization and identity-document readiness.
5. Add Notary Geek as an option for international customers who need a more careful online-notary workflow.
6. Review whether the current VPM help text should separate notary options, CMRA video-presence options, and static selfie upload options more clearly.

I am not asking VPM to remove every other option or make an exclusive commitment. I am asking VPM to recognize that Notary Geek is a strong fit for the customer problem VPM is already trying to solve.

## Why This Matters Commercially

This is a practical business opportunity. VPM customers already need Form 1583 support. Many are remote, international, company-formation, mailbox, banking, apostille, or document-routing customers. Those are exactly the customers Notary Geek is built to help.

When VPM sends those customers elsewhere, the relationship loses value for both sides:

- VPM may get more confused customers and rejected forms;
- customers may end up in the wrong notary workflow;
- Notary Geek loses referrals that fit its actual specialty;
- the VPM / Notary Geek relationship does not reach its potential.

I would like to turn this into a cleaner referral partnership that is better for VPM, better for customers, and commercially fair to Notary Geek.

## Requested Next Step

Please route this to the person responsible for partnerships, affiliate relationships, customer help content, and Form 1583 workflow policy.

I would like to schedule a call to discuss:

1. adding Notary Geek to VPM's Form 1583 notary guidance;
2. creating a VPM-specific Notary Geek referral page;
3. tracking referrals and commissions cleanly;
4. improving customer instructions for online notarization, no-SSN issues, foreign signers, and ID readiness;
5. clarifying how VPM wants customers to use the notary path versus any CMRA video-presence or selfie alternative.

I have been a VPM customer for years and want this relationship to grow. I believe Notary Geek can become a high-quality referral partner for VPM's Form 1583 customers, especially where the customer needs more than a generic notary link.

Respectfully,

Greg Lirette  
GoodWare LLC / Notary Geek  
G@notary.cx

## Short-Link Source Appendix

Primary source packet for this proposed partnership:

https://notary.cx/vpm-1583

USPS / CMRA / Form 1583 source packet:

https://notary.cx/usps-1583

Notary Geek Form 1583 customer path:

https://notary.cx/1583

Notary Geek no-SSN / foreign-signer identity-document path:

https://notary.cx/no-ssn

Virginia electronic-notarization / RON identity-method research:

https://notary.cx/va-bio

https://notary.cx/va-kba

Cross-audience RON evidence-chain letter:

https://notary.cx/master-letter

Underlying public source URLs and preserved evidence files are maintained by Notary Geek and can be provided in full.

## Internal Notes

Use this as a relationship-first letter. Do not lead with accusations against VPM.

Evidence lane:

- Greg reports long-time VPM use and three mailboxes.
- Greg reports working to build a referral partnership and already receiving income.
- VPM help text supplied by Greg routes customers to other notary options, including NotaryCam and FedEx.
- USPS DMM context supports the distinction between the notary act and CMRA duties.

Possible follow-up:

- Build `notary.cx/vpm` or equivalent landing page for VPM customers.
- Include Form 1583 precheck, ID readiness, no-SSN explanation, foreign signer handling, and direct scheduling.
- Consider a clean affiliate/referral tracking code.