Rule 440 - SERVICE OF PAPERS(a) Unless otherwise provided by an Act of Assembly or Rule of Court, a copy of each paper filed in any case, other than the writ or complaint by which an action is commenced or other original process, shall be served by the party filing it upon all other parties to the litigation or their attorneys of record in Schuylkill County within forty-eight (48) hours after filing.(b) Whenever any person, having been served with a petition, rule, notice, pleading or process, original or interlocutory, fails to appear in response thereto, proof of service of the same must be filed in the case before the Court will act thereon.(c) All notices shall be in writing.(d) Except as otherwise provided by Acts of Assembly, rule or special Order of Court, service by publication shall be made once in the Schuylkill Legal Record and in one (1) daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation within Schuylkill County.Amended effective 3/1/2021; revised 2/23/2022; amended effective 2/1/2024.