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Cheques being phased out in Australia by 2030
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Halcyon:
This was something a few of us were discussing over on the EEVblog IRC channel today.

I learned that the Australian government will be phasing out the use of cheques by no later than 2030. Which to me is still quite late considering the use of cheques in Australia is almost zero today.
Most Australian banks haven't offered cheques for most accounts for some time, however they will still process cheques that are sent to them (at least for now).

In my experience, I've never owned a cheque book and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to cash a cheque. Same goes for writing cheques, I think I last wrote one in 2002, as the company I worked for at the time still used them.

Keen to hear about other's experiences around the world. Correct me if I'm wrong but the US are still fairly reliant on cheques as a form of payment?
ataradov:
I've used to write one every month for rent payments, since that was the only thing management were accepting (other than cash in the office). And a few years back they moved to online payment.

The last check I wrote was when I applied for a passport, since that's literally the only form of payment they would accept.

And tax refunds also get mailed as a check, unless you provide a bank account number.

So, the only use of checks for me are government transactions. They can change that any time and I would be glad to stop using them.
Circlotron:
I wonder what would happen if you got a tax refund cheque for example, from the Reserve Bank of Australia and put it aside and forgot about it for a few decades until they were totally obsolete. Then one day you found it and took it to the bank to deposit it.
ataradov:
They have expiration date, usually 2-3 months. But in no case they will last more than 6 months.
Psi:
I've never had a cheque book at all.

I had a deposit book when I opened my account and got a eftpos card in ~1995.  but I never got a cheque book, or wrote a cheque.

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