This has been a growing concern for me in the past few months. The cheques are arriving via regular mail. The other day, I got 3 from different affiliate and ad programs.
A have heard from a lot of people and their stories of lost cheques in the mail or repeated requests for re-issues that never came.
Although I have not personally experienced loosing any cheques on regular mail and I have this feeling that the Makati Post Office personnel are the most trusted bunch of local government employees, I don’t want to be too complacent about it.
One possible way to go around this is by requesting the issuer to send the checks via Registered Mail. Even TextLinkAds is a bit spotty on that department — sometimes they send it via registered mail, on other times via regular mail.
Or, maybe by next year, when every other Pinoy gets his own fully-functional Paypal account…
P.S.
As for ReviewMe, I suppose that will be the first and last cheque I’ll get from them. Just disclosing that I’m not into paid online reviews.
There are some concerns for us Filipino (Go Philippine Blogosphere!) Bloggers regarding remote cheque delivery. Some are lucky to have great and credible postal offices in their area, others are just, well nevermind.