P.M. BRIEFING : Left-Handed Checkbook for Lefty
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MELBOURNE, Australia — What do you give a left-handed person who has nearly everything? A left-handed checkbook.
Australia’s Bank of Melbourne has started issuing left-handed checkbooks, the bank’s chief executive said today.
Christopher Stewart estimated that about 30% of the bank’s 800,000 customers are left-handed.
“One day I saw my No. 2 man, who is left-handed, trying to sign a check. It was clumsy,” Stewart said. “The next week we got a letter from a left-handed customer complaining about the checkbooks so we decided to do something about it.”
The difference between a right-handed and left-handed book is that a left-handed book’s spine is on the right.
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