• VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Huh. To be honest, I wouldn’t know what to use it for. Most shops here don’t accept them, and if someone paid me with one, I’d probably have to contact my bank, since they don’t have any automated facilities for cashing them.

    They just seem like an artifact from a bygone era.

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        3 months ago

        my friend in Canada was trying to send me money and we ended up using a check. also my landlord from two apartments ago refused to take rent any other way. she was very old

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          3 months ago

          cheques are definitely still a thing in canada (companies still use them for one-off payments and landlords still use them to collect rent) and you can now deposit them by taking a picture with your phone.

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        3 months ago

        how do yall usually handle down payments, like on cars and houses and such? those are the only times I’d really expect to use a check in my part of the US