Should Paper Checks Be Abolished Like The Penny?

I still use paper checks to pay certain bills and the VA. I like having an option for plastic.

I might write 3 a year.
Only to avoid paying 3% fees.
It seems like more and more companies are charging them.

Interesting article.
I can't pin down the last time I wrote a check, but I believe it was just before I started by 2nd career, in 1989.
And I don't remember when I last saw one being written at a grocery store, but it has definitely been years.

But as noted, there are several checks created on my behalf every month through online bill payment. I don't know how that will be handled for payments to entities that don't accept electronic transfer.

The abolition of checks (or "cheques", as the rest of the English-speaking world calls them) is inevitable. They are an anachronism, 17th century technology that is increasingly incompatible with 21st century financial systems. The United States is just about the last technologically advanced country where they still exist as a major component of the economy.

As the article noted, Australia is legally banning them from 2030, but functionally, most Australian banks are already ahead of the game. Some banks have already abolished both the issuing and processing of cheques. All the big banks and most of the smaller ones have already abolished anyone applying for new chequing accounts, for both personal and corporate accounts. For holders of already-existing cheque accounts, the banks will either no longer issue new chequebooks or only issue them under strict limited conditions. So when you literally run out of cheques, you're forced to switch to electronic banking. So by the time 2030 rolls around, cheques will already have functionally disappeared from use.

Banks hate cheques, and all the time, money and paperwork that cheques require. So they're totally on board with their abolition, and have done a lot over the past few decades to discourage their customers from using cheques and switch to electronic payments instead.