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Originally Posted by beaner
Most banks charge $20 to stop a payment on a check. I would bet that Merrick bank, who processes for CCBill, charges them exactly $20 per stop check. You moved and forgot to tell them to send to new address? That's 100% your fault.
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Spot on.
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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Why weren't the checks just forwarded with the rest of your mail?
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Great question (that won't be answered for sure).
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Originally Posted by Jel
We don't have an expiry date, which is where the heart of the confusion with the UK peeps is coming from  I, at least, considered an expired check as a void check that cannot be cashed. Previous posters have said why that's not the case, so in that respect yes, you'd have to cancel the check as in both instances the check is 'live', so to speak
This scenario wouldn't arise with a UK check, as it would never expire, hence the slight dumbfoundedness (on my part anyway) as to the whole charging to stop a useless check - which this thread has cleared up is not useless after all. So yeah, US banks are fucked up  |
That is not strictly true. UK cheques are normally valid for 6 months from the date of issue ie the date you put on it, not when you got the cheque book. I rarely use cheques but still use a book I originally started in 2005.