From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!turtleva!ken Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Do we need to buy checks? Article-I.D.: turtleva.119 Posted: Fri Jan 7 03:25:56 1983 Received: Sat Jan 8 00:49:08 1983 References: rocheste.369 Many times I have received in the mail a request for monetary contributions. A couple of times, there was enclosed a printed form which looked somewhat like a check. The accompanying note said that if I signed the note, and included the name and address of my bank, the check would be honored. I suspect these particular organizations solicited contributions in this way because it is not generally known that one can withdraw funds from one's checking account without the normal check; therefore more people would contribute to see if it really worked. Unfortunately, I did not make a contribution, so I can't say with experience that t is possible to withdraw from a checking account without a standard printed check.