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Treasury confirms cheques will stay in circulation until 2029 but then cease to be accepted as legal tender

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[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Has anyone actually written out a cheque in their personal banking chequebook this century? I only did it occasionally in ye olden days, and mostly to post payments to utilities and pay rent etc. I don't think I ever stood in a store and wrote out a cheque. Hardly any would accept them without a prior arrangement.

I've used bank cheques this century, but not lately. Who's out there writing cheques?

[โ€“] trk@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

We got a cheque book with our business banking account the better part of a decade ago now, and we've used 1.

When I was a checkout chump a million years ago people still occasionally brought in cheques and it meant taking copies of ID and all sorts because the dishonour ratio was too damn high.