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If your payroll check drawn on a bank with branches all over the country, cash the check at a branch in Las Vegas.

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This doesn't always work. My friend started a new job last year and had to go for 1 months' training in Boston and they gave him his first paycheck in person and he took it to the local branch that had the address listed on the check and they told him they don't cash payroll checks unless you are a customer.

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I am not sure how this works these days. My paycheck is drawn on Wells Fargo, so I decided I would cash it there because that was far more convenient for where I was going. They told me there would be a $5 fee for cashing the check. I always thought that having the checks you write honored at the bank was part of having an account there.

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Anything to do with getting your money from a bank is harder to do these days. In the same example my friend then took his paycheck to a local branch of his bank and they told him they would put a 7 day hold on his money because it was an out of state check. He had to speak with a manager and then wait for an hour while they called his home branch and verified everything - even though it was the same bank, same account, same computers, and he had all his ID.