Has your bank ever lost one of your checks?

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I got the strangest call the other night. It was pretty late at night, well, after banking hours anyway - probably around 8pm-ish. It was my bank and they wanted to know if I remembered a deposit I made through the ATM machine on December 29th - a month ago. The amount didn't look familiar, but I looked it up in my QuickBooks software and saw that it was my paycheck. They said that they have a record that it was in fact deposited through the ATM, but when they send all the paperwork (and the checks) to the main branch for verification, it got lost. They needed me to check with who wrote me the check - my boss - and see if it's cleared his account yet. It normally would have cleared his account within a week, and it's been a month. So when I got to work, the check was not showing up in his bank account. He wrote me a new check and put a stop payment on the first check. I had to take the check to my bank so they could finish processing it. I have never had this happen and thought it was kinda strange. They never asked for my account number or anything like that and the phone number they gave me to call back was in fact the right number for my bank. When I took the new check into the bank, they knew exactly what I was talking about so I know this was legit. It was just really strange. My boss and I got to talking and he did have a client once who paid his loan with a check and it was applied to his loan balance, but it was never deducted from his checking account. The same kinda thing happened to him, but for some reason they never contacted him about it. Has anything like this ever happened to you? I know there have been a few times where I've mailed a check and it's never gotten to the place I mailed it, but these checks got where they were supposed to be, they just never finished going through the whole system.