Form: 10-K405

Annual report [Sections 13 and 15(d), S-K Item 405]

December 31, 1969

EXHIBIT 24

Published on December 31, 1969



EXHIBIT 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each of the undersigned directors and officers of DELUXE CORPORATION, a
Minnesota corporation, hereby constitutes and appoints Harold V. Haverty and
Jerry K. Twogood his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, with
full power to act without the other, to sign the Company's annual report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 1994, and any and all amendments to such
report, and to file the same and any such amendment, with any exhibits, and any
other documents in connection with such filing, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Date
/s/ Harold V. Haverty 2/6/95
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Harold V. Haverty, Director and Principal Executive Officer

/s/ Eugene R. Olson 2/6/95
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Eugene R. Olson, Director

/s/ Edward W. Asplin 2/6/95
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Edward W. Asplin, Director

/s/ John Schreiner 2/9/95
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John Schreiner, Director

/s/Jerry K. Twogood 2/6/95
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Jerry K. Twogood, Director

/s/ Whitney MacMillan 2/6/95
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Whitney MacMillan, Director

/s/ James J. Renier 2/6/95
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James J. Renier, Director

/s/ Barbara B. Grogan 2/6/95
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Barbara B. Grogan, Director

/s/ Allen F. Jacobson 2/6/95
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Allen F. Jacobson, Director

/s/ Charles M. Osborne 2/6/95
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Charles M. Osborne, Principal Financial Officer
and Principal Accounting Officer