[MR] Returned Checks

[Miriel]

This is why my husband and I use money orders.

Miriel (hiding in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark)

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM, <scribe0002 at aol.com> wrote:

> Gather round, children, Aunty Gise has a story to tell you . . . Once upon
> a time an event was held and people sent money so they could attend . . .
>
> I've been involved with organizing any number of SCA, school, church,
> civic, 4-H and other events in my forty-mumble years. Any time that folks
> (or churches or schools or 4-H groups) pay with checks a certain number of
> those pretty pieces of paper come bouncing back down the street all the way
> from the bank. Every time.
>
> I'm not here to tsk tsk at anyone or to wag my finger in anyone's face. It
> happens.
>
> Enough of those bouncing checks have had my name on them that I understand
> the variety of missteps that can cause their advent. Miscalculations, direct
> deposit paychecks that always come on Wednesday but come this week on
> Thursday, deposits that ride around in my spouse's car for a week rather
> then going straight to the bank, bank errors such as depositing the money
> for Kathy L. Rauhauser-Smith in the account of Kathleen L. Smith or Kathryn
> M. Rauhauser (both have happened to me . . . both have happened more then
> once.)
>
> It happens.
>
> But can I beg, on the behalf of exchequers, autocrats, gate keepers,
> reservationists, event stewards and all the other event-related officers in
> this beautiful kingdom, take pity on us. Take care when you write a check.
> If your bank sends you notice that you've bounced a check to us, take the
> initiative and contact the exchequer of the group or the reservationist to
> whom you sent your money. Tell them what's happened and work out the details
> of making it right.
>
> Most of the banks charge the group a returned check fee . . . in our case
> it's $8 a returned check. Be prepared to pay that charge as well. It's one
> of the worst parts of being an exchequer. No one wants to be a collection
> agent. It's uncomfortable . . . please. Pretty please?
>
> And they all lived happily ever after. The End.
>
>
>
>
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