I thought it worth reporting here that we've recently had three chequebooks go 'missing' in the post. Two attempts were made to use cheques from one of the books, but fortunately our bank alerted us, the cheques were stopped and all the remaining cheques made void. In future, we'll collect chequebooks from a branch rather than having them posted to the house, which is safer but less convenient. We're also no longer have statements sent to us, which we don't really need as we can view then online. The fact that the three chequebooks were sent over a period of 2-3 weeks, and that I also ordered a book which was dispatched but didn't arrive, has raised my suspicions that employee of the Post Office might be involved.