[GNC] question from newbie

[Jean-David Beyer]

On 11/7/21 05:42, Michael Hendry wrote:
> I’m assuming a “head check” is what we in the UK would call a post-dated cheque - a cheque which can’t be cashed until a stated date; for what it’s worth, I understand that banks in the UK will often make the payment if the cheque is presented early.

As far as I can tell, here in the USA, checks are seldom seen by human 
eyes. The MICR scanner reads the account number and a 
character-recognitian scanner tries to read the amount. Only if that 
faiul does a human being try to read the amount. Consequently, 
post-dating a check is usually ignored.

It also was a custom for a bank not to cash a check over 90 days old, 
but that is not always happens either.

With a post office as bad as here in USA, more and more checks do not 
make it to their destination. The worst recent case for me was a check 
mailed inside the post office to a post office box in the same post 
office that was returned months later from another post office, saying 
there was no such post office box.

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