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Cheques being phased out in Australia by 2030
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Muttley Snickers:
I don't know which land the OP is living in but from my experience, observations and perspective.... cheques are still commonplace and cash is still king.   :-* 
jonpaul:
US Constution Art 1 sec 10:

 No State shall .... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debt...

Jon
nctnico:

--- Quote from: ataradov on October 09, 2023, 05:27:24 am ---Also, don't rely on the car, they inevitably break down. Any important transportation should be done by horse buggies.

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Crap, my horse just died   >:(
Halcyon:

--- Quote from: johnh on October 09, 2023, 07:23:55 am ---My mother who is her nineties was telling me about a friend of hers.  Her friend had to get some one to drive her to the bank in Box Hill, about 6.5k away from where she lived.
Didn't have a debit card. All she had was a transaction book.

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Yep, and banks have been progressively phasing those out as well. First went the dot matrix printers, so bank staff had to hand-write those few who insisted on using transaction books. I dare say that will continue until either those account holders pass away, or there are no bank branches to visit. My bank for example doesn't have any branches at all.


--- Quote from: Muttley Snickers on October 09, 2023, 09:32:42 am ---I don't know which land the OP is living in but from my experience, observations and perspective.... cheques are still commonplace and cash is still king.   :-*

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Perhaps in your small corner of the world, but looking at the national picture (of which the RBA publish regular statistics), the vast majority of the population would say otherwise. That's the land I live in. In the financial year 2021-2022, cheques represented just 0.2% of payment methods Australia-wide.
rdl:
I write two checks every month and one I could avoid if I wasn't so lazy. But how would I pay my credit card if there were no checks? I guess these days there's some way to transfer the money directly?
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