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Originally Posted by Mule
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stop using cheques and tell them to wire money
100% of Europe does it that way
no more transport problems, delays, bouncing cheques, waiting for cheques to clear, etc etc
i still don't understand why the US still uses an antique method to transfer funds
Europe, send bill,
bill goes to finance dept
(let's for one instance exclude the option of stalling on their end, that happens here just as well)
finance controller fires up his pc, logs the crap in their accounting software, clicks a button "pay the buggers" and the accounting software just links up to the bank, and wires the money
if it's same country, in most cases, the money will be on the account within 30 minutes, if it's within the EU , usually within 2 days (legally the limit is 4 working days, but it's usually faster), or instantly if it's a priority transfer ( costs about 4.5 euro's within the EU)
even sending bills these days is moving towards electronic form
soon there won't be any paper/envelope required, many utilities companies are already doing this right now
seriously, cheques is like using clay tablets with hieroglyphs to pay for your groceries