Interesting, Stephen! Then you are a bit ahead of us here in the US. I receive almost all of the statements for credit cards, auto loan and utility bills electronically, and pay the bills the same way. I have to think about where my checkbook is on the rare occasion that I need to write a check.
About 10 years ago, my now-nearly-87-year-old father-in-law became unable to drive. Prior to that he would pay his bills the way that he had done all of his life - by cashing his check and driving to each agency to pay each bill. My wife helped him to open his first checking and credit-card account. He's still wary of using ATMs, though, and still insists on going into the branch to cash his dividend checks so that he has some money in his pocket. As much as I hate to go to the supermarket for other reasons, I find it hard to believe that some people still write checks there. Granted, the approval process has improved over the years, but it's still faster to pay with cash or use a debit or credit card. 73 de Jim - AD6CW On 6/4/2011 12:17 AM, Stephen Prior wrote: > This is pretty standard practice here in the UK, and I guess much of > the rest of Europe. I doubt if I write more than half a dozens > cheques (checks) a year now and they are shortly to be phased out > altogether by the banking system here. I can, in most cases, transfer > money from my account to someone else's and the money is often there > in the other account in a matter of hours and two days at most. > > Life is getting easier for some, but I feel sorry for some of the > older folks with no ready access to the internet. > > 73 Stephen G4SJP > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
