It appears that Jay Hennigan via mailop <mailop-l...@keycodes.com> said: >On 2/25/22 13:05, John Levine via mailop wrote: > >> Since Deluxe is in the check printing business and handles check >> printing for many banks, it's not hard to guess where they got your >> address. If you ever ordered a checkbook they might even have an >> arguable existing business relationship. > >I disagree. Banks make a huge markup on check printing and really don't >want their customers to purchase checks direct from Deluxe, Costco, etc.
You know, I wasn't guessing. >Even if the checks are printed by Deluxe, the bank wants you to use >their portal when ordering checks. No kidding. And guess who runs that check ordering portal, charges you fifty bucks for a $5 book of checks, and remits a commission to the bank? Deluxe runs a bunch of other banking back end services so it might not have been check printing. Like I said, I don't think it is a good idea for them to send people spam, but I also don't think they're scraping addresses at random. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
