Harland Clarke Corp. said Wednesday that it is replacing its brick-shaped check boxes with a new package that it says offers security and other advantages.
Rather than stacking checks in a conspicuous and familiar package, Harland Clarke is shifting to a package it calls CheckFolio. The new folio design is "an 'outside-the-box' approach" to check packaging, said Gwen Cuffie, Harland Clarke's vice president of product solutions and marketing, in a press release.
The security benefits of the package are its tamper-evident wrapping and a shape that is more easily hidden in the home, such as by placing the folio among books on a bookshelf or among documents in a filing cabinet. This design change is in response to consumer requests for more secure packaging, the company says on its website.
Harland Clarke, of San Antonio, Texas, says it will transition its products to the new design over the course of the year. The company says CheckFolio is also a more environmentally friendly design because it uses less material than a standard check box does.
