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submitted 11 months ago by Stamets to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They do verify immediately in many places. The cash register scans the check, extracts the bank routing and account numbers, and does an EFT transaction on the spot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No shit? TIL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah. Then they hand the paper check back to you. (I haven't written a check, or seen anyone write a check, at a store in many years, but that's how it was working the last time I did see it.)