>(BTW: can you send a cheque electronically, without the trip to the mail 
>box?).

This is how the Switch/maestro network works for debit cards. When I first 
arrived in the UK I couldn't get my head around it taking 3 days to clear my 
payment when I went to the supermarket - too used to the NZ system where it 
was transferred immediately. 

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