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From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Laser Printable Checks?
Message-ID: <524@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 May 89 21:42:18 GMT
References: <12810@jade.BBN.COM> <555@lzaz.ATT.COM> <4354@ttidca.TTI.COM> <2893@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <4121@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs)
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In article <4121@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
]In article <2893@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
]> I don't know about US law, but in Britain you can write a cheque on anything,
]> so you couldn't prohibit this.  There has even been a case of a cheque being
]> written on the side of a cow and honoured by the bank.

Banks used to generally accept handwritten checks on any reasonable
material, though the last 10-20 years they've been insisting on
more standardised versions - partly to prevent fraud but mostly due
to increased mechanisation for cost-cutting and Federal Reserve
inflexibility.

The  cow  story is unlikely - cows are valuable, and don't fit into
automatic teller machine slots.

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# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs
# also found at 201-271-4712 tarpon.att.com!wcs 

# welcome, to mars, eh, hosers!  Have a brew and some donuts, eh?