Granted I haven’t worked with ad networks, but it seems ridiculous to me that you’d have to pay anything over 0. Your post service screwed up here, and it was the ad network who chose to use the post service. Seems to me the ad network should either eat the loss or go after the post service for compensation. But I definitely don’t think they should be charging you a fee for their failure to get your payment to you.
Is that 50 US$? I ask because the site is registered to a Canadian address. 35 US$, which seems to be the going rate according to the link @mawburn posted is around 46 Canadian$.
I contacted their bank to ask about the charges and they said we charge $12.50 to stop payment of a singe check in case of lost. This is also mentioned on their website.
I mailed a check to my electric company to pay my bill, but presumably it got lost in the mail because they never received it. I told them they owed me $ to cancel the lost check. They laughed then billed me for late payment.
Ok, that was a fictional story, but the point is the electric company’s response was appropriate. They’re not responsible for my lost check. And neither should you be responsible for your ad network’s lost check.
EDIT: Sorry for saying basically the same thing as my last post. It just seems so absurd to me that they would charge a fee for a screwup that happened on their end.