Cashing checks: where?

Finance, Taxes, Banking, Insurance and Retirement
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I tried the search function but nothing came up.

I was wondering where to best cash checks in Switzerland? Do you do it at your bank? Does anybody know if Postfinance does it as well?

The check has my old address on it - advise on what to bring as proof?

Thanks in advance.

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Is that your introduction? Welcome to our Forum.

My old Uncle gave me a check, it took about 6 weeks to get the money and it cost me about CHF 20 in fees.

Try and get the drawer of the cheque to pay the money into your own bank account or your credit card account, Switzerland doesn't use cheques any more.

PS. another of my brilliant ideas, ask a relative to cash it for you.

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what type of check (American?) We had one cashed (deposited, we put it in an account rather than walked out with cash in hand) by Credit Suisse last year and it took at least 10 days, maybe 2 weeks. Raiffeisen said they would cash the check but it could take up to 6 months. HTH

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You might get some threads if searched on cheques .

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Thanks for your help!

It's an American goverment issued one (tax refund) so it gets pretty complicated. I think I might just give it to a relative.

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OP - Not sure if you have a US bank as well, but I maintain a US checking account to pay US bills, shop online and... to accept checks. Chase and Bank of America allow you to deposit checks via their smartphone app, though there is an upper limit of daily deposits which you should look into if the average check you would want to deposit is more than .

( https://www.chase.com/online/services/check-deposit.htm )

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I have no US bank... and PostFinance in Switzerland is not operating as a bank so I have my doubts if it will work. So are my only options to send it to the US to be cashed?

Any other ideas?

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Deposit a personal US check?

Deposit US-issued checks to a Swiss bank account

Depositing a US Check in your Swiss Bank account

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Not sure about post finance, but with UBS, you can deposit a check from the US into your account, but the funds don't show up for about 3 weeks.

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Postfinance cashes any cheque for you, it costs about 15CHF and will take about 6 weeks and of course you need to have an account with them.

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Go to Germany ,the US occupation forces may be

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What is a check? Is this some sort of proof that something has been done and you need to pay for the privledge?