They do! It's like they never heard of EFTs. They also pay many of their bills manually, or even worse, some still mail a cheque in response to a bill they receive via snail mail.

No, never. They use checks.

I know right? This would have been an electronic bank transfer here int he UK and I'm sure across Europe.

I can't remember the last time I used a cheque. Maybe 10 or even 15 years ago? Even that was a random one off. I don't even have a cheque book and would have to ask the bank especially if I wanted one.

For large sums of money, it's pretty common to use cashier's checks, which is probably the kind of check that they're talking about here.

While people don't use them much, companies do. Both for payroll and bills etc. I work for a a MSP (managed service provider, basically a company that sells scalable IT to other companies) and the amount of check printer tickets we get isn't small. Also for more shock, faxing is still often used as well.

We've never used your weird ass check-ways

For inventing English you guys are horrible at it

It’s more of an older person thing but companies will send them for payments. Your employer will do a direct EFT though.

Older people tend to, it's not that common. I think I've written like one or two checks in my life.

It isn't uncommon for large sums. Things like down payments etc.

yeah, but we also have Publix fried chicken, so it evens out 👌

I'm not in America and as recently as a few years ago, I was aware of several companies who had cheque printer sheets from their bank which had something like 3-5 cheques per sheet. You'd load up a template and fill it out, run it through the printer and then just sign them and it's all good.

I don't see anyone using personal cheques anymore, but they're still in use in business.

Depends on how you want to pay for your settlement.

I got a check during my lawsuit with my landlord.

I rarely see anyone under 40 using checks anymore. It's really an older generation thing and they're stuck in their ways.

They still get stressed out about manually balancing their checkbooks too. Even though it's an obsolete skill now and the banks keep track of all of the transactions automatically for them