This past summer I had my car broken into for a grand total of 4 times this past year. They stole my courier bag from the trunk that had a checkbook in it. So the next day I went to the Georgetown branch of my bank to cancel the checks. As I don’t use checks very often (typically for bills and parking tickets only) I don’t reorder checks til two months later. I wrote about 8 checks at that time, two of which were to the DC gov’t for traffic tickets. On Saturday I get a notice from GEICO that the bank fails to honor my check. Yesterday I get a letter from the DC gov’t stating that my check couldn’t be honored and that I had 3 days to rectify this or my registration would be revoked and my driver’s license could be suspended.
At this point I’m bugging out- I contact my bank and discover that they issued my new checks with the same numbers that they had cancelled 2 months prior, meaning that none of the 8 that I wrote will be honored. I now have to wait for new checks again, take a day off to go to the bank to get cashier’s checks, wait in line at the DC Treasurer’s office, contact all the vendor’s I wrote checks to, etc… which is a huge hassle for me.
Aside from giving them a snooty “I’m taking my business to a credit union where they care about little guys like me” and closing my account, can I force the bank to “fix” any of this? Are they obligated to do anything since it was their snafu? Barring that, can I get back at them and how?