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[nreggie454]

People love adding charges whenever they can to make the economy hurt a little less.

For example, the company I work for uses Wachovia as its bank. I use a different bank which isn't in Georgia, so I chose to do direct deposit. Since that takes a while to process, I had to cash my first couple checks because they couldn't direct deposit yet. I went directly to a Wachovia assuming there would be no problems. I was wrong. Since I do not use Wachovia, they charged me $5 out of each of my paychecks to cash a check that costs ZERO for them to process. Total BS.

[Motivation]

People love adding charges whenever they can to make the economy hurt a little less.

For example, the company I work for uses Wachovia as its bank. I use a different bank which isn't in Georgia, so I chose to do direct deposit. Since that takes a while to process, I had to cash my first couple checks because they couldn't direct deposit yet. I went directly to a Wachovia assuming there would be no problems. I was wrong. Since I do not use Wachovia, they charged me $5 out of each of my paychecks to cash a check that costs ZERO for them to process. Total BS.

But with that you are actually paying for a legit service. You are not a customer of theirs so you don't get the benefits of their customers. So, their fee is understandable.