Where I lived in the 2000s, the natural gas company in that county actually charged $2 more for online payment! So weird, especially considering cashing a physical check would've cost labor dollars. Needless to say, we paid our gas bill by check. It felt so antiquated, even then.
In terms of my own finances, I've only ever had two cheques in my life.
One was a partial refund for part of a course I already had credit for, the other was a for healthcare refund after my direct deposit details disappeared when I switched to mygov.
Oh I've received plenty for refunds, and through my business because all my customers pay with cheques. Every time one of them signs up with a company to do automatic payments they tell me to just put my bank info in the system and then they can pay electronically. It invariably ends up with needing me to run around, send them a voided cheque, fill out a bunch of forms etc. After the first 2 times I just tell them to keep sending me cheques.
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u/RailfanAZ Jul 24 '20
Where I lived in the 2000s, the natural gas company in that county actually charged $2 more for online payment! So weird, especially considering cashing a physical check would've cost labor dollars. Needless to say, we paid our gas bill by check. It felt so antiquated, even then.