OT: Cashier's checks (was Re: OT: neural networks and filePro)

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> I'd -never- call PNC customer-friendly, but they sort cheques so that the
> smallest ones clear first.  That helps stop more of the snowball effect if
> a client screws you and their cheque bounces.  I had that happen three
> times--all from the same client.  Needless to say they're no longer a
> client.  They managed to (and I was told as a teen that this wasn't even
> POSSIBLE) bounce a cashier's cheque.  I kid you not.  That was their second
> payment on it after the first bounce, when I demanded a money order or
> cashier's cheque.  The third time I demanded a wire when I found out that
> even a cashier's cheque -could- indeed bounce any time up to 14 days out.
> I got my money, but I dropped the client.
[...]

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