X-Message-Number: 30993
From: "Chris Manning" <>
Subject: (1) checks and (2) raffles
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:26:21 +1000

(1) checks

David Verbeke wrote:

I haven't had or used a 'cheque' for
> over 10 years, nobody's using that anymore here. (I
> don't even know if the bank still issues them, except
> for company's or 'bank cheques' when you have to
> pay a large amount of money without wire transfer).  I often
> visit the US, and never saw someone paying by cheque. 



This is all very strange. For decades I had been under the impression that 
personal cheques cannot be used to send money to another country. It is only 
with this O'Rights appeal that I discovered that a US bank, the M & I Bank, will
accept a personal cheque drawn on an Australian bank. David Pizer told me that 
as far as he knew this was the case. So I sent a cheque for the O'Rights appeal 
and it has now been duly debited to my account.


But then David Verbeke says that nobody there (I assume he means in Belgium) 
uses cheques any more! And he hasn't seen them in use in the US either. As far 
as I can tell they are alive and well here in Australia. I receive a new cheque 
book from my bank automatically in the mail whenever I am approaching the last 
cheque in my current book. They haven't told me anything about cheques being 
phased out, or anything like that.

It would be nice if anyone out there could throw some light on the above.


(2) On August 21 I wrote:

'It is disappointing that nobody has said anything at all about my suggestion 
that a raffle be held to raise money for the O'Rights appeal, assuming 
raffles are legal in the US.'


It was 'disappointing' then. What word should I use to describe the fact that I 
have *still* had no response to my suggestion?


You can at least tell us whether, if such a raffle were held, you would buy a 
ticket. This email is addressed to the membership of CryoNet, jointly and 
severally.




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