I didn’t read the article (paywall), but in real estate, we have checks stolen from the post office all the time. All we need to do to secure checks is for bank

I didn’t read the article (paywall), but in real estate, we have checks stolen from the post office all the time. All we need to do to secure checks is for banks to give us some mechanism to upload an image of checks we send to our account for pre-authorization, and/or a push notification for checks authorization for checks over a certain amount and/or whitelist recipients. Very simple digital controls, but “it’s cheaper” for banks just ignore the problem, at least it was until the enforcement side (local and postal police) gave up enforcing.