[sportutegrl]

I wrote out a check to a guy I hired to build a deck on my house. He did a good job for a fair price. I got the check back with a fingerprint on it. It made me ashamed that the bank would do that to him (because he was black?).

[sportutegrl]

I should add that the check wasn’t returned NSF, it was just cashed and came back to be, back when banks used to return your paper checks.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No, it was because he was not a customer of that bank.

My husband sold some coins and, since we needed the money right away rather then in a week, took it to the issuing bank to cash.

They gave him a major run around and finally cashed it but it took his finger print on the check, two forms of id and a call to the issuer.

And it was not that big a check, a couple of thousand dollars.

[2nd amendment mama]

I got the check back with a fingerprint on it. It made me ashamed that the bank would do that to him (because he was black?).

My bank does that to anyone who wants to cash a check there if they don't have an account with the bank. It has NOTHING to do with the color of one's skin.