Being charged to make a deposit???

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You must not have been in a modern one... the one I was at, the checks kept flying through the machine... if there was a problem that check was just sorted in a different pile... someone would look at the scanned image and make the necessary entries and then it was whisked away.... it usually took 3 to 5 seconds of a human to fix it... unless it was something wrong with the check coding....

Back in the 80's I worked for an outfit that made the check sorting machines. Some our big customers had a plan to load one our huge machines into a cargo jet and keep feeding it during a nuclear war! Now, though, I'm pretty sure the machines only scan, but they don't actually sort, bundle and physically move the paper any more.