I note from a number of threads that quite a few of you are building up your credits rather than cashing them in.

Beware!

As you may know AW have very stringent rules and woe betide you do not fall foul of them at any time; duplicating pics on your blog that are in your gallery;
duplicating gallery pics;
having a phone number showing somewhere;
a jealous WG or angry punter complaining about you;
the list goes on and on.

If you fall foul of a rule, AW strike off your profile.  There is no comeback and you lose ALL your credits.  This happened to me at any early stage in my career and I had ?200 of credits built up. A punter complained that one of my movies was too grainy and not good quality! I do not do movies now.

If you are worried about AW having your address, I really would not.  It is a worldwide bureaucracy and the well oiled machine just does things automatically.  Alternatively have it posted to a different address, or a mate or something.

The cheque does NOT say AW and has nothing on it that could possibly look like an adult service about it.  Comes in a plain envelope.

This happened to me once too.

I had 300 quid saved up on my aw credits and someone complained about one of the photos in my private gallery being fake and my profile got removed and I lost all the money. I tried to argue it with aw but never got the money back :-(
every time I have 50 quid on aw I always get a cheque sent out straight away.
Pandoras right about the cheques being discreet too. My parents saw some of the cheques in my house once and had no idea that they were anything other than normal cheques that you would get anywhere else.