• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      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.orgOP
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        8 months ago

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