Yesterday, I wrote a check to pay the water bill.
Still pay lots of things by check. the only thing i dont ever use is bitcoin and those other coins. i like writing checks...makes me feel in control of spending, even though it ain’t necessarily so. My Chinese wife cant write a check to save her life, but she pays her charges using various
Apple Iphone routings which i know nothing about.
Something I do every month with a few presses of the button. It's not only the writing of the check that seems to be too much effort but the mailing of it as well. Do they at least pay for free mailing or do you have to shell out for the stamp?
Same here I pay all my bills with a check.
Ditto! The only check I write every month is the water bill because their online pay system is terrible!
Friday for me also - at the grocery store...I write checks for everything except bills I pay online. Occasionally there will be a new clerk at the grocery store checkout who doesn’t know HOW to process checks; they call for help. A few weeks ago, a new gal pointed to the numeral written - $$$ 50/100 - and asked what it was!! I’m not sure she could even READ the written amount. Not long ago I wrote a check for my copay at a doctor’s office. The gal gave me a receipt AND my check back.
I pay all of my utilities via check. Reliable and waaaay safer than any payment via the WWW. Any WWW payment scheme either feeds orgs I loathe (e.g., PayPal) or depends on too many middle-men, any of which is quite willing to sell all data. Tens of millions of accounts have been compromised in that manner.
To home depot yesterday.
our local Democrat-run county charges 1.3% for eChecks used for online payments for things like auto registration renewal and property taxes, even though eChecks cost no one anything extra, so i ALWAYS mail checks, which probably cost $50 worth of manual paperwork handling ... if everyone would do that, the County would quit charging outrageous fees for electronic payments that actually save them money ...
I write checks every month to pay the bills. Don’t always trust auto payment out of my account.