So yesterday, I picked up on this story about how CafePress bounced a check to Silent Running. I thought at the time that he might be jumping the gun by shutting down his CafePress store and going public with the issue, but Mondays are busy and I didn’t have time to comment. Well, it turns out I was right to be concerned:

UPDATE: Ok boys lay off Cafepress. The culprit now appears to be my bank, or more to the point some weenie who screwed up and tried to hide it blaming Cafepress.

More on this dodgey turn pf [sic] events as they unfold when I drop by the local branch for a please explain meeting tomorrow.

My prediction is that the meeting will be fruitless; involving insincere apologies and a strong element of “feces occurs, why are you so upset about it?” Believe me, you do not want to know how difficult some banking problems can be to solve. I’ve watched the city spend six months helping a customer by trying to get two banks and the Federal Reserve in Dallas all on the same page, and fix an error that wasn’t the city’s fault and cost a customer $800. The fault was her bank’s.