Yes. It’s as if sending out hundreds of millions of checks during an unprecedented economic crisis might be somewhat of a challenge for the people who have to make it happen on an instantaneously urgent basis...
Possibly with the exception of business. The property management company my girlfriend runs fields literally thousands of checks a month and sends hundreds a week.
This is the norm in the United States when actual money is involved.
Plus think of all the opportunities for checks to get “sent” but “lost in the mail”, sent for the incorrect amount (always lower than the amount owed,) and not be eligible for payment at all until the provider accrues a certain dollar amount…
Often, not even that much, as the check is just one of many jobs the personal has to execute. The other jobs won't disappear just because they might not check now.
It just happens that a capitalist writing a large number of checks happen to write a couple of right ones. And often we need them to write some wrong ones too.
This seems like a technology problem, not a personnel problem. There should be more checks in a system when you are changing bank accounts where so much money is going to be deposited.
> Simple transactions require more planning. Employees must leave earlier to cash their paychecks, says Ms. Baker, who plans to add automatic deposit next year.
Paychecks... As a European I'm always suprised about how primitive the US financial system is.
Just to be clear, I was talking specifically about "the circumstances zz865 describes", meaning generic large bureaucratic organizations. I meant that as distinguishing it from the circumstances of the original article, but I should have been more clear. I entirely believe there are situations like you describe where the checks are both necessary and properly funded.
There is a world of difference between cutting 8 $20k checks from 100+ applicants and cutting 1 $160k check on the fly. Yes, it would be awesome if we could just pull $200k out of the sky on a day's notice. But unless the dollar goes somewhere very unpleasant, that isn't going to happen.
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