EXHIBIT 24

Exhibit 24


POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Harold V. Haverty, Jerry K.
Twogood, Charles M. Osborne and John H. LeFevre, 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 execute a Registration
Statement on Form S-8 to be filed under the Securities Act of 1933 for the
registration of 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock of Deluxe Corporation under the
Deluxe Corporation Stock Incentive Plan and any and all post-effective
amendments thereto, and to file such registration statement, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each
acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform to all intents and
purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or his
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated: May 9, 1994


/s/Harold V. Haverty /s/Whitney MacMillan
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Harold V. Haverty Whitney MacMillan


/s/Jerry K. Twogood /s/Eugene R. Olson
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Jerry K. Twogood Eugene R. Olson


/s/Edward W. Asplin /s/James J. Renier
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Edward W. Asplin James J. Renier


/s/Barbara B. Grogan /s/John Schreiner
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Barbara B. Grogan John Schreiner


/s/Allen F. Jacobson
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Allen F. Jacobson