mail will go to a "lock box" at the post office. There a bank will pick up all the mail, sort it, open it, take the cheques and remittance advice out, process it all through electronic machinery, and post the funds to the proper accounts. In modern systems, taking advantage of the Check 21 Act, as in the United States many cheques are transformed into electronic objects and the paper is destroyed. See also Allonge – slip of paper attached to a cheque used to endorse it when there is not enough space. Blank cheque – cheque where amount has been left blank. Certified cheque – guaranteed by a bank. E-cheque – electronic fund transfer. Hundi – historic Indian cheque like instrument. Labour cheque – political concept to distribute goods in exchange for work. Negotiable cow – urban legend where a cow was used as a cheque. Substitute cheque – the act of scanning paper cheques and turning them into electronic payments. Transit check – a cheque which is drawn on another bank than that at which it is presented for payment. Traveler's cheque – a pre-paid cheque that could be used to make payments in stores. Railway pay cheque – identification used to collect railway workers pay packet. Warrant of payment Notes References External links Read also about cancelled cheque Accounting source documents Banking terms Banking Numismatics Paper products