Check Please
The electronic world of checking is at its prime right now when it comes to shopping at the store and malls. Checks have almost completely gone the way of the dinosaur. The word almost is used because they are still used for quite a few things. They are still very useful for paying invoices and contractors, mailing payroll to employees, or sending relatives cards for special occasions such as birthdays and Christmas, and to make payments through the mail. Thanks to the electronic age and the internet, credit cards and debit cards save us time at the checkout lines in stores. People still get annoyed every once in a while when another person writes a check but it does not happen too often. Checks were the first electronic transfer in a sort of sense.
History is not quite sure when checks first appeared. Some historians think the Romans may have invented the check around 352 B.C. According to most history books, it probably was not until the early 1500s, in Holland, that the Personal Checks went wide spread in the world. Amsterdam was a huge international shipping and trading center in the sixteenth century. The concept of writing and depositing checks as a method of arranging payments quickly spread to England and everywhere else it seemed, but not with ease by any means. It was strange for people to trust their money with strangers and little pieces of paper. In the United States, checks are said to have first been used in 1681 so that businessmen hard up on money could use their land as written pieces of cash on paper. The first printed checks are dated back to 1762 and British banker Lawrence Childs. The world check also probably originated in England in the 1700s when serial numbers were placed on these pieces of paper as a way to keep track of them, or to check on them which hence the name check got its name.
Today people can get all sorts of checks with different designs on them. You can Order Checks with pictures of dogs, landscapes, favorite teams and logos on them all the way to pictures that were taken by you yourself. The problem is finding a good price on those checks to order. The personalization is just amazing these days and the security features on checks are even more impressive. The watermark ensures that it is hard to duplicate any checks so that people cannot forge another companies or person’s check. This was a major issue in the 50s when Frank Abagil was forging checks from Pan American Airlines and stealing millions of dollars. He later helped the FBI track down new forgers and even got a movie made out of his story. Catch Me If You Can was the name of it and got great reviews across the board. Checks have made a huge impression on the world and have been a major stepping stone for the way people transfer money these days. Who know what method will be even more popular in the way we transfer money.
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