Form: S-8

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

May 31, 2002

EXHIBIT 24.1
 
POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Lawrence J. Mosner, Douglas J. Treff 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 5,500,000 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: May 22, 2002
 
Signature

  
Title

/s/ Lawrence J. Mosner

Lawrence J. Mosner
  
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer)
/s/ Douglas J. Treff

Douglas J. Treff
  
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)

Ronald E. Eilers
  
Director
/s/ Daniel D. Granger

Daniel D. Granger
  
Director
/s/ Barbara B. Grogan

Barbara B. Grogan
  
Director
/s/ Charles A. Haggerty

Charles A. Haggerty
  
Director


 
/s/ Donald R. Hollis

Donald R. Hollis
  
Director
/s/ Cheryl Mayberry McKissack

Cheryl Mayberry McKissack
  
Director
/s/ Stephen P. Nachtsheim

Stephen P. Nachtsheim
  
Director
/s/ Martyn R. Redgrave

Martyn R. Redgrave
  
Director
/s/ Robert C. Salipante

Robert C. Salipante
  
Director