Back when checks were a lot more prevalent, some people would list a PO Box on their checks, either out of privacy or necessity (mail service didn’t go to their

Back when checks were a lot more prevalent, some people would list a PO Box on their checks, either out of privacy or necessity (mail service didn’t go to their street). I was one of the people who did it for privacy, using the box my small business received mail at. Around the late 90s, a whole lot of places stopped accepting checks with a PO Box address printed on them, ostensibly due to “fraud concerns” (it was really that the government offices that do debt collection for “hot” checks wouldn’t accept non-physical addresses). There’s not really a point to this story, I suppose, except that privacy has always been hard to maintain.