Hi On Thursday 18 September 2008 at 1:46:19 PM, in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Lester wrote:
>> Phone number? On a cheque? > Most US banks put it on by default. Fair enough. We don't get that in the UK. My phone number is private and not the bank's or the payee's business unless I decide otherwise. > In the past, at least, stores would always ask for it when you wrote > the check and they checked your drivers license. If they accepted cheques larger than your cheque guarantee limit they would often ask for your address over here, rarely phone number. One bank I know of used to print the customer's address on their cheques but had to stop this nearly 20 years ago. > As noted, these days the checks are generally scanned and confirmed > electronically, much like your credit/debit card is. To me, that would defeat the object of paying by cheque. If the money is in your account today, it is quicker and easier to pay by card. If it will be there in a day or two, the cheque used today will hit your account after the money gets there. > I'm sure the checks in question had been ordered several years > before they were used. I used to be like that - the banks automatically send a new chequebook from time to time and you end up with lots of them. > I'm not sure if our current ones have phone or not. If people change mobile phone numbers as frequently there as here, it would never be up to date. I'm sure few people would give the bank a new phone number to harrass them on. This is getting way off-topic. -- Best regards, MFPA No matter where you go, there you are. Using The Bat! v4.0.34 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
