Hi
I see the alteration of the amount in figures is not initialled so the bank won't accept it anyway.
Spruce
Spruce, in a previous life I was the 'Paymaster' for an infantry battalion; and when on operations I also provided banking services to the lads in the form of the cashing of cheques.
I could process literally hundreds of cheques per day and if I ever found one that was incorrect, rather than hunting the soldier down, I'd just amend the cheque myself and scribble some initials!
That was not correct, nor legal, but it worked; and I still do the same when I get given a cheque and don't check it there and then.
So I could've easily have scribbled an initial down and cashed the cheque.
However, I knocked on the lady this morning and gave her the cheque back and she paid me in cash. Her explanation was, was that she'd made a mistake on a cheque that was for someone else; left it in the cheque book; and then wrote out a new cheque, but pulled the old one out and gave it to Wor Lass by accident; she said she'd had a lot on her mind.
But - changing the subject to something more helpful - if a customer gives you a cheque and there's a mistake, I always amend and initial it myself; it saves faffing about.