Form: S-8

Initial registration statement for securities to be offered to employees pursuant to employee benefit plans

December 21, 2000

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Published on December 21, 2000



EXHIBIT 24.1


POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below hereby constitutes and appoints John A. Blanchard, Lois M. Martin
and Anthony C. Scarfone, and each of them, his or her true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, with full powers of
substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place
and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign a Registration Statement on Form
S-8, and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto,
relating to the issuance of an aggregate of 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock of
Deluxe Corporation pursuant to the Deluxe Corporation 2000 Stock Incentive Plan,
as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents
in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting
unto such attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary
to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
such attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated: December 8, 2000


Signature Title
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/s/ John A. Blanchard III Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
- -------------------------- (principal executive officer)
John A. Blanchard III


/s/ Lois M. Martin Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
- -------------------------- (principal financial and accounting officer)
Lois M. Martin


/s/ Lawrence J. Mosner Director
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Lawrence J. Mosner


/s/ Calvin W. Aurand, Jr. Director
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Calvin W. Aurand, Jr.


/s/ Ronald E. Eilers Director
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Ronald E. Eilers


/s/ Daniel D. Granger Director
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Daniel D. Granger



/s/ Barbara B. Grogan Director
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Barbara B. Grogan


/s/ Charles A. Haggerty Director
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Charles A. Haggerty


/s/ Donald R. Hollis Director
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Donald R. Hollis


/s/ Cheryl E. Mayberry Director
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Cheryl E. Mayberry


/s/ Stephen P. Nachtsheim Director
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Stephen P. Nachtsheim


/s/ Robert C. Salipante Director
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Robert C. Salipante