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Check your email for the verification code we just sent you. (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think the last time I cashed a cheque my elderly mum wrote it. Had no idea before that people even still had cheque books after 2002 or something, but fortunately I didn’t have to find if there was a branch of my bank left within fifty miles because you can scan them in the app and pretend the other person sent you money in a normal way.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I'm the same way. But since I've been having to handle my elderly relative's estate I've had to write a ton of checks. The clerk of court requires the use of checks to pay bills for the estate. The estate account was issued a debit card but the bank said I couldn't use it because of the same requirement.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    In France it's quite regular and quite useful IMO (I'm from sweden where you can't pay a bus ticked with cash, nor a credit card... and checks were like abolished in the nineties) paying school stuff, sport inscriptions etc.

    Additional bonus, you can split a payment and ask for it to be cashed in over time, without needing some nank taking a cut.

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