I have an online payee that requires the "pay to the order of" on the check be different from the delivery destination. For instance, the check needs to be payable to Company A, but the delivery instructions are Company B, 2400 Main St, Rochester, NY, 14624. I can't find a way to send this check to Company B with Company A in the payee field.
I can't be the first person to ask this but I could not find it raised in the forums yet.
Am I just missing something obvious??
I doubt that the distinction is material.
When getting the check to the correct destination, I think that the address is all that matters to our incompetent socialist postal department (you just want the check delivered to the correct address, right?)
The postal goons will deliver the check to the address on the envelope. The recipient is not going to refuse the payment because the envelope had a different name than what appeared on the the check.
There should be two lines for the street address. Make your check payable to "Company A" -- that is the NAME of the online payee.
Set up the address to be "Company B" "123 Street" "Anytown, zzzzz" --- replacing with the actual information, of course.
You are correct that if the check is actually cut and mailed, both company names will show in the address field of the envelope. But, that is immaterial. The "pay to the order of" will be correct, as will the delivery address.
What will most likely happen, though, is the funds will be electronically transmitted.
Growing up with my father being a postal carrier I heard two things over and over:
Now, in real life your carrier may be nice enough to bring your mail when misaddressed but they aren't required to...it's the address that counts not the name.
Finally, build every package like it's carrying a raw egg.
Drumstick
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