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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Laser Printable Checks?
Message-ID: <1414@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 21:05:50 GMT
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In article <524@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes:
> 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.

An entertaining tale of handwritten checks.

As many of you are aware, Texas doesn't (or at least didn't) have
branch banking -- there was a bank, but no branches.  Counter checks
were very commonly used -- you would fill in your account number 
and your bank name, and that would be that.  (Talk about trust!)
The mother of a friend was working at one point for the Texas
equivalent of the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, and noticed that one
of the checks they had accepted was drawn on an account with
the Left Bank of the Missisippi.

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Clayton E. Cramer                   {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
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