this here is not to con any 1 just a little tip i learnt when at college learning BIT. it helped me a few times and yup technology changes and i no longer use cheques so i dont know if this still works but here goes
from what i remember is that cheques numbering on the paper is written in OCR (optical character recognition). now say u see that new harddrive u need but u havent got the money for say 2 weeks to pay for it but u really need 1. what you do then is get a candle and rub wax over the number (remember to use a clear candle
). cheques are then gone from the shop to the bank where they r placed in afiling system which they get processed each night. basically what happens is all the cheques are run through a machine which reads the OCR and then deducts the amounts from each account as instructed. what happens here is some cheques bounce some go through and some arnt read properly. its the ones that arnt read properly is what we are lookin at at our cheque will not be registered as anything as these get placed back in file for the day after with the new workload. this is the daily routine of the cheque until the wax wears off the OCR and the machine reads it which then extracts the money as instructed and saves you an overdraft fee or a bounced cheque. the estimated time for the cheque to be readable is 14 - 21 days not that good but might come in handy someday u never know
great idea!
thanx a lot!
