| ▲ | mcintyre1994 a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I’m in my early 30s and I don’t think I’ve ever written one. When I had my first bank account when I was maybe 10 I was given a cheque book, I don’t know where I’d get one now. I did recently receive a cheque for $12.99 or something like that from an Amazon settlement that I think is probably legitimate. Apparently Monzo can cash a cheque through their app so I’ll try that at some point. I’m guessing it won’t work with an international one though. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | autoexec a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> when I was maybe 10 I was given a cheque book, I don’t know where I’d get one now. I'm guessing you'd walk into your bank and ask for one. You can probably order one from their app somewhere. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rebolek a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I’m older (not in UK, in EU) and cheques are something weird from old movies. Never seen one in real life and concept is really strange. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dylan604 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A couple of years ago during lockdown, I was working with someone definitely qualifying as a boomer, to start up an e-commerce site for him. He was proudly showing me his ledger book of checks that he had to shell out $200 to receive while declining a debit card. On a couple of occasions, I went with him to get cash by driving to a bank branch, writing a check, and having the teller cash it for him. It took months to convince him that he absolutely needed a debit card when people were constantly asking if they could use Venmo/CashApp/etc to pay for products. So we're still in a transitional stage where some people are still stuck on using checks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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