This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
basamento acústico
Corporación de Cultura y Turismo

Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

carta notificada

English translation:

registered mail

Added to glossary by Andras Matyas Szentkereszty de Zagon
Feb 26, 2018 23:22
6 yrs ago
3 viewers *
Spanish term

carta notificada

Spanish to English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general)
Por medio de la presente me permito aclarar que en la carta notificada y recibida por ustedes el dia . . .

In English, normally we can't notify a thing. We notify a person ABOUT a thing.

In this case, what is a "carta notificada". Who was notified?

Thanks ahead of time.
Proposed translations (English)
5 +3 registered mail
4 +2 letter delivered
4 +1 letter sent
4 notification letter
Change log

Mar 12, 2018 09:38: Andras Matyas Szentkereszty de Zagon Created KOG entry

Discussion

AllegroTrans Mar 4, 2018:
'notificada' can also mean 'served'. It's a common legal expression.
Alan Lambson (asker) Feb 28, 2018:
Hi Giovanni. The letter is, in fact, from Colombia.
Giovanni Rengifo Feb 27, 2018:
COMMENT You're right Alan. In Spanish "se notifica a alguien de algo". You can't "notify a letter". This is a very strange way of using the verb "notify". I'm not sure what they mean here. Where's this text from? As pointed out by Philgoddard, they probably mean "letter served". It makes sense.

Proposed translations

+3
2 mins
Selected

registered mail

Explanation

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 hrs (2018-02-27 02:05:20 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

https://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/traduccion/carta certi...
Peer comment(s):
neutral philgoddard : Doesn't it just mean "letter served"? You seem very confident - do you have any references?
39 mins
it is registered mail as you keep proof of having sent the message and that it has been delivered for legal purposes
agree Albion Land
8 hrs
neutral AllegroTrans : Your Linguee ref is for carta cerificada and therefore is irrelevant and your CL is ott
12 hrs
agree bigedsenior : text says 'recibida por ustedes el dia . . . ', which would indicate a registered, or Certified (USA) letter
1 day 19 hrs
agree Susana Cabello M.
1 day 20 hrs
Something went wrong...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
52 mins

notification letter

Something went wrong...
+2
1 day 16 hrs

letter delivered

In that case I believe they just mean "delivered" here.
Peer comment(s):
agree neilmac : Yes, the "...y recibida" " means it's been delivered or "served"...
18 hrs
agree AllegroTrans
4 days
Something went wrong...
+1
9 hrs

letter sent

It just means "sent". However, by using the more formal sounding "notified", they kind of make it sound more official and imposing.
It is also sometimes used to mean "published" for example, when they send out notice of seizure of your bank account for unpaid fines, even though you don't receive it, it is published in the State Gazette (BOE), and even though you are unaware of the payment due, you are deemed to have been "notified" simply because notification was sent out and then published in the BOE, whether you have seen said notification or not.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 9 hrs (2018-02-27 08:25:57 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

I'm not posting any references, because the anecdote above is from personal experience. Tráfico used to keep sending out letters to an address I used to live in twenty years ago, even though I had repeatedly informed them of my changes of address. I still find out nowadays that some of my information on officialdom's computers is way out of date.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 11 hrs (2018-02-27 10:24:04 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

The fact that the original text says "carta notificada y recibida" suggest that it probably does refer to registered mail, as the senders apparently have proof that it was received by the addressee. However, in Spain, a registered letter is usually a "carta certificada"...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 11 hrs (2018-02-27 10:26:27 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Correos (España) dixit:
"La carta certificada te permite realizar envíos nacionales o internacionales de hasta 2 kilos de peso que circulan con carácter registrado y se entregan bajo firma del destinatario o de la persona autorizada. Pueden llevar carácter de urgente."

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 11 hrs (2018-02-27 10:26:46 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

http://www.correos.es/ss/Satellite/site/pagina-atencion_clie...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 days 10 hrs (2018-03-01 09:51:14 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

NB: As phil notes abve, it is probably just an attempt to express the notion of "served":
Serve = Deliver (a document such as a summons or writ) in a formal manner to the person to whom it is addressed...‘the court then issues the summons and serves it on your debtor’
More example sentences
3.1 Deliver a document to (the addressee) in a formal manner.
‘they were just about to serve him with a writ’
Peer comment(s):
agree philgoddard : Strictly speaking this is redundant because the letter couldn't be received without being sent, but I believe this is the meaning.
10 hrs
Something went wrong...
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search