I used bank deposits. First through the mail, then through electronic-but-not-Internet payment systems and finally online and mobile banking. Also bank authorizations.

Checks were never big here, but they had been phased out completely in the 00s. I haven’t actually seen one since the nineties. I have never owned a check book.

[–] DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This is funny, my son works at a printing place that prints, among other things, checks. And they apparently make a LOT of checks. He’s 25 and was confused why so many people need checks.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The fewer places print checks, the more each one is busy. Also probably still very common for businesses.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

This. I can tell you from a banking standpoint we were ordering FAR fewer registers and other check stuff over the years and before I left they had reduced the amount we even could order to like 10 books per order, so not at lot and old ladies would come take them all.

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