Form: S-8

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

May 6, 2008

 

Exhibit 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
     KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Lee J. Schram, Richard S. Greene and Anthony C. Scarfone, and each of them, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned’s 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 registration of 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share of Deluxe Corporation under the Deluxe Corporation 2008 Stock Incentive Plan, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and with such state commissions and other agencies as necessary, granting unto said 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 or about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Power of Attorney has been signed as of April 30, 2008, by the following persons:
     
Signature   Title
     
/s/ Lee J. Schram
 
Lee J. Schram
  Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Richard S. Greene
 
Richard S. Greene
  Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Terry D. Peterson
 
Terry D. Peterson
  Vice President, Investor Relations and Chief
Accounting Officer
(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Ronald C. Baldwin
 
Ronald C. Baldwin
  Director
/s/ Charles A. Haggerty
 
Charles A. Haggerty
  Director
/s/ Isaiah Harris, Jr.
 
Isaiah Harris, Jr.
  Director
/s/ Don J. McGrath
 
Don J. McGrath
  Director
/s/ Cheryl E. Mayberry McKissack
 
Cheryl E. Mayberry McKissack
  Director
Neil J. Metviner
 
Neil J. Metviner
  Director
/s/ Stephen P. Nachtsheim
 
Stephen P. Nachtsheim
  Director
/s/ Mary Ann O’Dwyer
 
Mary Ann O’Dwyer
  Director
/s/ Martyn R. Redgrave
 
Martyn R. Redgrave
  Director