atw: Re: Writing numbers in text [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]


What happens, typically, Howard (S) is that the payee assumes you are
either a total goose or enjoy writing neoprene cheques.

The
bank / financial entity / whatever will almost certainly reject the cheque
and charge someone a nasty little fee for the privilege, which will almost
certainly be passed on to you by the recipient.

Cheques are
almost completely dead as a concept now anyway.  Using Internet
banking (with the Opera or Firefox browser for security while running
anti-spyware such as Lavasoft AdAware or Spybot and a decent firewall such
as Zone Alarm or Comodo) instead, with Pay Anyone or something akin to
BPay.  Sure you need several grand of technology to do what you could
do on a slip of paper, but you get a lot of benefits.  One of which
is a confirmation dialog, another is the lack of having to write
things out in long hand.  (Sorry about the egg-sucking tutoring here
but why to people still use cheques at all?)

Cheers,

Micky G
Write Ideas
www.writeideas.com.au


<snip>> 
> Does anyone know what happens if you
write a cheque and put 'two thousand 
> dollars' in words and $200
in figures? Can the payee assume you meant 
> $2000? 
>

> Howard

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