Deluxe Corporation Amends its Offer to Purchase Documents

Deluxe Corporation Amends its Offer to Purchase Documents
No Change in Offer Price and No Extension of Offer Period Contemplated by
Amendment 


ST. PAUL, Minn., June 4  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Deluxe Corporation
(NYSE:DLX) announced today that it filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) an amendment to its Offer to Purchase with respect to its
pending acquisition of New England Business Service, Inc. (NYSE:NEB).  The
amendment includes one change to one instruction in the Letter of Transmittal
prepared for tendering NEBS shareholders to use to deliver their NEBS shares to
The Bank of New York, the depositary for the offer.  Deluxe noted that NEBS
shareholders may continue to use the Letter of Transmittal originally delivered
to them to tender their shares, and do not need to obtain a revised Letter of
Transmittal in order to tender their shares to The Bank of New York.

The amendment is available at no charge through the SEC website, at
http://www.sec.gov/ .  In addition, NEBS shareholders who desire to receive
copies of the amendment to the Offer to Purchase and the Letter of Transmittal
at no charge may contact Georgeson Shareholder Communications Inc., the
information agent for Deluxe's offer.

Georgeson Shareholder Communications may be contacted at:  17 State Street,
10th Floor, New York, New York 10004.  Banks and brokers should call: (212)
440-9800.  All others may call, toll free:  [phone].

The expiration of the tender offer for NEBS shares continues to be scheduled to
occur at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 23, 2004.

This announcement is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an
offer to sell shares of New England Business Service, Inc.  On May 25, 2004,
Deluxe filed a tender offer statement with the SEC and New England Business
Service filed a solicitation/recommendation statement with respect to the
offer.  New England Business Service shareholders are advised to read the
tender offer statement regarding the acquisition of New England Business
Service referenced in this news release, as amended, and the related
solicitation/recommendation statement, as amended. The tender offer statement,
as amended, and the solicitation/recommendation statement, as amended, contain
important information which should be read carefully before any decision is
made with respect to the offer.  These documents have been made available to
all shareholders of New England Business Service at no expense to them.  These
documents are also available at no charge on the SEC's website at
http://www.sec.gov/ .

About Deluxe Corporation

Deluxe Corporation provides personal and business checks, business forms,
labels, personalized stamps, fraud prevention services and customer retention
programs to banks, credit unions, financial services companies, consumers and
small businesses.  The Deluxe group of businesses reaches clients and customers
through a number of distribution channels: the Internet, direct mail, the
telephone and a nationwide sales force.  Since its beginning in 1915, Deluxe
Corporation has been instrumental in shaping the U.S. payments industry.  More
information about Deluxe can be found at http://www.deluxe.com/ .

About New England Business Service, Inc.

NEBS is a leading business-to-business company with approximately 3.1 million
active small business customers in the United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom and France.  It supplies a wide variety of business products and
services including checks, forms, packaging supplies, embossed foil seals and
other printed material which are marketed through direct mail, telesales, a
direct sales force, dealers, dedicated distributors and the Internet.  NEBS
also designs, embroiders and sells specialty apparel products through
distributors and independent sales representatives to the promotional
products/advertising specialty industry, primarily in the United States.  More
information about NEBS can be found at http://www.nebs.com/ . 

DATASOURCE: Deluxe Corporation



CONTACT:  Stuart Alexander, Vice President of Investor Relations,

[phone], or Douglas J. Treff, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial

Officer, [phone], both of Deluxe Corporation



Web site:  http://www.deluxe.com/

http://www.nebs.com/ 

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