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Originally Posted by Sly
I know that you aren't American so you may not understand how American banks work with checks, but they always charge you a cancellation fee. And checks don't really "expire", despite the "void within X days" written on the check, it depends on a variety of factors.
So yes, there is $4000 involved, if there really were weekly checks for 4 years. It's probably more than $4000 if they all needed to be canceled.
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Yeah I thought that might be the case actually after I posted
It's pretty unfathomable for us in the UK anyway at least, for a check that when presented at the bank which cannot be cashed, there'd be any kind of fee to 'stop' that uncashable check.
While we're on the subject though, what is the absolute need to 'stop' the check? As in, I've been turned down before now to write VOID in big red letters all over the front, rip it in half, and scan it, so there's zero way for it to actually be presented at a bank, but this wasn't proof enough that I wasn't going to attempt fraud, and the issuer still needed to put a stop on the check. I mean, how the fuck does the bank know what is owed and what is not - surely you'd write another check and simply not inform the bank?