Same thing happened to me twice. I think it’s the check company’s way of advertising their ghey checks. I couldn’t use them because they were ridiculous. I just void them out. Plain checks are the only way to go.
I figured something out. I’m going to not use the other nine goofy checks, and I have developed a method whereby I won’t go neurotic over the missing numbers.
First, I’m going to void them, then put them through the shredder, and then burn the shreds.
Then, I’m going to enter the nine numbers on my check register and write VOIDED BECAUSE OF STUPID DESIGNS! in it.
Still pisses me off though. I paid for 250 checks and only got 240 usable ones.
I have never had any problems ordering checks through the mail or on-line (done it a total of three times). However, I DID have a HUGE problem ordering checks through my jackass bank (which I no longer used). They forgot to update my information with the check printing company, so they were sent to an address on the OTHER SIDE OF TOWN that I hadn’t lived at in FOUR YEARS. Then when they re-printed them (at NO cost to me), my last name was spelled wrong (I had gotten married), my phone number was wrong (STILL not updated), and they were THE WRONG FREAKING CHECKS!!! I told them to shred them and credit my account.
Then I bought 300 checks with birds on them for like $15 through the mail. Received them within three weeks (IIRC) and have never had any problems. My old bank shows you copies of your checks on-line, and they always came out fine. Never had any trouble with incorrect amounts, either.
BTW, our joint account checks were froggies (four rotating designs!!) and now Impressionist paintings. I get SO MANY compliments on my checks, and the printing is light enough not to cause problems with legibility.
Whenever I need checks, I drive up to the teller window and ask for some. They give me a few checks (they even print them for me right there!) and I drive away. I ran out of checks in, oh, 1996 and I’ve never ordered new ones.
Of course, I only write about one or two checks a year. 
these people make checks that look like roaches are crawling on them.
I LOVE THEM!
Wait! Wait! Don’t get rid of them! You should hang onto them, put a blank entry in your check register (with “pending” lightly written in pencil or something), and parcel them out sparingly for the stupidest and most obnoxious future spending you can manage. Next year’s taxes, for example. Or if you’re forced to put out what you think is too much for, say, automotive repair, nothing says “you’re a Mickey Mouse outfit” than Mickey Mouse on the check. Especially if you write “I saved this check for you” in the memo line.
Just seems like there’s too much opportunity for personal amusement to just go dumping these things. No, the recipient probably won’t get it, but the chance for a secret giggle is better than being pissed off about the check vendor’s stupidity.
Atleast you didn’t get any samples by Thomas Kinkaid or Anne Geddes. Those “Flower Babies” scare the hell out of me.
Ah. Thanks, TroubleAgain.
I apparently escaped the evil designing clutches of Deluxe. All (and I do mean all) of mine are of the same design.
:eek:
They have checks with boobs.