From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!mcnc!dennis Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Do we need to buy checks? Article-I.D.: mcnc.1454 Posted: Thu Jan 6 15:46:26 1983 Received: Fri Jan 7 04:24:31 1983 References: rocheste.369 That sort of thing used to work, but last time I tried it, the business (car repair shop) refused it, saying that whoever they gave their checks to (either bank or accounting house, I don't remember which) refused to accept anything that wouldn't pass through the Federal Reserve system (ie, it didn't have the bank and acct #s in machine-readable form on the check).